Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, PhD, is a cultural animator, political scientist and researcher, a graduate of Jagiellonian University. She works as a research assistant professor at the Migration Research Center at the University of Warsaw. She has almost 15 years of experience working in government administration in the field of state policy towards ethnic and national minorities and in coordinating integration policy towards the Roma in Poland. In 2008-2014, she was Plenipotentiary of the Małopolska Governor for National and Ethnic Minorities. Author of evaluation reports for the European Commission under the Roma Civil Monitor project (2017-2020), and Roma Civil Monitor II (2021-2025). Author of scientific and popular science articles on Roma issues. For the past 13 years, she has co-organized an international Roma Holocaust commemoration project with Ternype: "Dikh He Na Bister". Member of the board of the Jaw Dikh Foundation. Member of the European Roma Institute for Art and Culture (ERIAC). Graduate of the Roma Leadership Academy "Nicolae Gherorghe" (2019) organized by OSCE/ODIHR/Contact Point For Roma and Sinti Issues, U.S. Department of State International Leadership Visitor Program scholarship recipient (2010), graduate of the Roma Access Program at Central European University (2006) and European Commission intern (2005).