Women’s Rights’ Activist and Leader of the Polish Women’s Strike (Black Monday), Poland
She is a women’s rights activist and a democracy fighter. She started and has been the leader of the national help committee of the Polish Women’s Strike, a coalition of women that on 3 October 2016 – known as Black Monday – organized and led the “black protests” in over 150 cities in Poland that stopped Polish parliament from introducing a total abortion ban in Poland. Polish protests were the inspiration to form the International Women’s Strike coalition that organized women’s protests in 60 countries worldwide on 8 March 2017. She is one of the founders and a member of the Prodemocratic Coalition, a movement formed after national protests for judicial independence, consisting of members of civic organization and opposition parties. Her main aim is mainstreaming women’s rights as unconditional, core value in modern, democratic society; not something to be “discussed later”.
motto: People don’t need to be lead the way, they need to be supported when they walk their own. That’s how we will all get there.
