Английская Википедия:Aleksandra Wiśniewska

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Aleksandra Karolina Wiśniewska (Шаблон:IPA-pl; born 27 May 1994) is a Polish politician, political scientist, humanitarian and social activist. Since 2023, she is a member of the Sejm of Poland, as a nonpartisan member of the Civic Coalition political alliance.

Biography

Early life and education

Aleksandra Karolina Wiśniewska was born on 27 May 1994 in Łódź, Poland. Her father is Radosław Wiśniewski, a businessperson, and founder and chairperson of Redan company. He is of Polish descent. Her mother is Piengjai Wiśniewska, who is of Chinese and Thai descent, and comes from Bangkok, Thailand. Aleksandra also has a brother.

She attended the Emilia Sczaniecka 4th High School in Łódź, and at the age of 17, she received the scholarship of the United World Colleges, and moved to Italy, where she finished her high school education. She graduated from the London School of Economics with bachelor's degrees in political science and philosophy, and from the Blavatnik School of Government of the University of Oxford, with a master's degree in public policy. While studying at the London School of Economics, she was a chairperson of the Polish Business Society, and an organizer of the Polish Economic Forum.

Humanitarian work

In December 2015, during the European migant crisis, she volunteered to work in the refugee camp in Lesbos island in Greece. She also conducted the field research of the human rights violations in refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, located in France. Later she worked for the United Nations Development Programme agency on developing strategy for distribution of the humanitarian aid in Jordan and Turkey, in response to the Syrian civil war.

In 2019 she became the coordinator of the Polish Humanitarian Action mission to Yemen lead by Paula Gierak. The mission was aimed at giving humanitarian aid in the cholera epidemic during the Yemeni civil war. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she continued to work for the mission, helping to rebuild destroyed clinics, and to reestablish national healthcare system, which were affected by the war.

In 2022 and 2023, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she worked there for the Children's Aid Foundation, and later for the Intersos, helping to evacuate orphanages.

Political career

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Aleksandra Wiśniewska in the Sejm building in Warsaw, in 2023.

In 2019 she worked for the campaign team of Janina Ochojska, who was a candidate for a member of the European Parliament in the Polish election. In 2023 she became the plenipotentiary for citizen participation of the mayor of Łódź, Hanna Zdanowska. In the same year she also became the face of the campaign "Will You Dare?" (Polish: Odważysz się?), aimed at promoting participation in the election among young people.

In 2023, she run for the office of a member of the Sejm of Poland in the parliamentary election. She run as a nonpartisan candidate of the Civic Coalition political alliance, in the constituency no. 9, which consists of the city of Łódź, and counties of Brzeziny and Łódź East. She reviewed the mandate, with 25 436 votes (5,57%).

Awards

• Karski2020 Award by the Jan Karski Educational Fundation (2020)
• Green Hero Award by BNP Paribas Bank Polska
• Medal for the 600th anniversary of Łódź (2023)