Our team brings together experts who drive change through knowledge and years of experience.
In our team, professionalism always goes hand in hand with empathy. As specialists committed to our mission, we bring diverse experiences that enable us to approach systemic challenges from multiple perspectives. This attentiveness to people is the foundation of our work for change.
Team
Piotr Kwapisiewicz
President of the Board
Social activist in the fields of advocacy, civic participation, and combating antisemitism, hate speech, hate crimes, and other forms of discrimination. Fellow of the Program for Minorities implemented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva.
Anna Zielińska
Board Member – Secretary
Law graduate, expert on addressing antisemitism, Jewish community activist. She served as Adviser on Combating Antisemitism at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR). She has cooperated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), AIPAC, and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Anna Chipczyńska
Board Member – Treasurer
Activist in the Polish Jewish community. Chair of the Board of the Jewish Community of Warsaw from 2014 to 2018. Previously professionally associated with the World Jewish Congress as well as the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR). She has many years of experience in the non-profit sector, organisational management, and the implementation of national and international projects.
Joanna Grabarczyk – Anders
Expert on bias-motivated crimes and strategic litigation
Member of the Advisory Team on Combating Hate Speech and Bias-Motivated Crimes to the Prosecutor General. She specializes in the analysis of online hate speech and provides training for police officers, legal professionals, and social organizations.
Mikołaj H. Winiewski, PhD
Consultant in research methodology and the analysis of social phenomena.
Social psychologist, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research on Prejudice (Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw), and Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. Member of the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw. He/She collaborates on research projects with governmental and non-governmental organizations aimed at diagnosing prejudice.
Martyna Grądzka-Rejak, PhD
Consultant on Holocaust history and education
Historian, Judaist, and educator. Head of the Research Department at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and historian at the Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). She specialises in the history of the Holocaust, social history, and everyday life, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and families, as well as Jewish survival strategies during the war.
A recipient of a scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science and a finalist of the Polityka Historical Award, she is the author of numerous academic and popular science articles and books, including Jewish Women in Occupied Kraków (1939–1945). She is also co-author (with Jan Olaszek) of Holocaust, Memory, and Samizdat: The Extermination of Jews and Polish-Jewish Relations under Occupation in Underground Publications in the PRL, and co-editor of The Jewish Family 1939–1945: Selected Issues.
She is currently working with Dr Alicja Jarkowska on a monograph on the Kraków ghetto.
Legal consultations and criminal proceedings
In the area of bias-motivated crimes
and the protection of minority rights.
Patrycja Dyluś-Borcz, Advocate
Szymon Filek, Advocate
Paweł Knut, Advocate
Artur Kula, Advocate
Advocate Tomasz Plaszczyk
Strategic litigation
Aimed at strengthening the legal protection of groups vulnerable to discrimination—both before national and international bodies.
KMA Law Firm (Advocates and Legal Counsels)