Aleksandra Wiśniewska

Aleksandra Wiśniewska
Aleksandra Wiśniewska in 2023
Aleksandra Wiśniewska in the Sejm (2023)
Member of the Sejm of Poland
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 November 2023
Constituency9-Lódź
Personal details
Born (1994-05-27) 27 May 1994 (age 30)
Łódź, Poland
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Civic Coalition (2023–present)
Education
Occupation

Aleksandra Karolina Wiśniewska (Polish pronunciation: [alɛkˈsandra karɔˈlina viɕˈnɛfska] ⓘ; 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.[1][2][3] Her father is Radosław Wiśniewski, a businessperson, and founder and chairperson of the Redan company. He is of Polish descent.[4][5] Her mother is Piengjai Wiśniewska, who is of Chinese and Thai descent, and comes from Bangkok, Thailand.[6][7] Aleksandra also has a brother.[6]

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.[8][9] 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.[10] 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.[11]

Humanitarian work

In December 2015, during the European migant crisis, she volunteered to work in the refugee camp in Lesbos island in Greece.[12] She also conducted the field research of the human rights violations in refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, located in France.[10][13] 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.[10]

In 2019 she became the coordinator of the Polish Humanitarian Action mission to Yemen led by Paula Gierak.[10][14][15][16] The mission was aimed at giving humanitarian aid in the cholera epidemic during the Yemeni civil war.[10] 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.[17]

In 2022 and 2023, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she worked there for the Children's Aid Foundation helping to evacuate orphanages,[18] and later as the head of an Intersos mission.[19][20][21]

Political career

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.[10] In 2023 she became the plenipotentiary for citizen participation of the mayor of Łódź, Hanna Zdanowska.[22] 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.[23]

In 2023, she ran for office as a member of the Sejm of Poland in the parliamentary election. She ran 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.[24] She finished with 25,436 votes (5.57%).[25]

Awards

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References

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  2. ^ "Aleksandra Wiśniewska". rejestr.io (in Polish).
  3. ^ Dorota Wellman (23 September 2021). "'Inspirujące kobiety' Doroty Wellman w TVN Style. Gościem Aleksandra Wiśniewska". tvn24.pl (in Polish).
  4. ^ Piotr Wesołowski (16 January 2017). "Biznesmen z zacięciem charytatywnym". lodz.wyborcza.pl (in Polish).
  5. ^ "Aleksandra Wiśniewska uhonorowana nagrodą Karskiego". happykids.org.pl (in Polish). 1 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Kim jest Radosław Wiśniewski". lodz.wyborcza.pl (in Polish). 11 November 2003.
  7. ^ "Wiśniewska, Piengjai". infoveriti.pl (in Polish).
  8. ^ Karol Paciorek (20 July 2023). "youtube.com". youtube.com (in Polish).
  9. ^ "Aleksandra K. Wiśniewska weszła do sejmu. Kim jest nowa posłanka z Łodzi?". businessinsider.com.pl (in Polish). 17 October 2023.
  10. ^ a b c d e f "Alumni spotlight – Aleksandra K. Wisniewska – Witnessing the refugee crisis and conflict zones in Iraq and Yemen highlights the need for political action". bsg.ox.ac.uk. 2021.
  11. ^ "Młodzi Polacy w City są celem rekrutacji polskich firm". rp.pl (in Polish). 3 March 2015.
  12. ^ Renata Kim (19 June 2019). "Wjeżdżałam do Mosulu, obleganego przez ISIS, z nieba lał się żar. I widziałam przed sobą cmentarz". newsweek.pl (in Polish).
  13. ^ Hanna-Sophie Wahle, Carlos Alarcon, Daniel Sippel, Aleksandra Wisniewska (2016). "The Unknown Knowns: Observations from small informal refugee camps in northern France". resourcecentre.savethechildren.net.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Maria Rostkowska (7 October 2021). "'Nie żyjemy, tylko wyżywamy'. Nie ma wody, jedzenia, podpasek. Koronawirus pogarsza sytuację kobiet w strefach konfliktu". pah.org.pl (in Polish).
  15. ^ Mateusz Kudła (24 June 2021). "Ma 26 lat i kierowała misją humanitarną w Jemenie. 'Kobieta na funkcji zarządczej ewenementem w tym środowisku' – oglądaj w TVN24 GO". tvn24.pl (in Polish).
  16. ^ "Jak Jemen przechodzi największy kryzys humanitarny świata – Dział Zagraniczny". dzialzagraniczny.pl (in Polish). 30 July 2020.
  17. ^ Jan Mikruta (3 April 2020). "28 mln ludzi i tylko 40 testów na koronawirusa. Dramatyczna sytuacja w Jemenie". polsatnews.pl (in Polish).
  18. ^ "Łodzianka pojechała na wojnę! Aleksandra K. Wiśniewska na czele misji humanitarnej w Ukrainie". lodz.pl (in Polish). 18 March 2023.
  19. ^ "INTERSOS Ukraine Mission delivers life-saving medical assistance to Kherson". intersos.org. 21 November 2022.
  20. ^ "Ukraine, essential goods distributed to 500 families in Kharkiv". intersos.org. 10 June 2022.
  21. ^ "UKRAINE EMERGENCY". intersos.org.
  22. ^ "Pełnomocniczka ds. Zaangażowania Obywatelskiego". uml.lodz.pl (in Polish).
  23. ^ "Aleksandra Wiśniewska nową twarzą KO. Jej strona została usunięta z Wikipedii". wiadomosci.gazeta.pl (in Polish). 17 August 2023.
  24. ^ "Skradła show na konferencji Tuska, wystartuje w wyborach. Aleksandra Wiśniewska nową gwiazdą KO?". wprost.pl (in Polish). 17 August 2023.
  25. ^ "Aleksandra K. Wiśniewska weszła do sejmu. Kim jest nowa posłanka z Łodzi?". businessinsider.com.pl/. 17 October 2023.
  26. ^ "The Recipients of the Karski2020 Award". jankarski.net.
  27. ^ "Green hero – BNP Paribas Green Film Festival". greenfestival.pl (in Polish).
  28. ^ "600 medali na 600. Uroudziny Łodzi. Kolejne osoby zostały uhonorowane". lodz.pl (in Polish). 20 July 2023.