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Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska
Polish politician and activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aleksandra Karolina Uznańska-Wiśniewska (Polish pronunciation: [alɛkˈsandra karɔˈlina uzˈnaɲska viɕˈɲɛfska] ⓘ; 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 member of the Civic Platform.
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Early life and education
Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska was born on 27 May 1994 in Łódź, Poland.[1][2][3] Her father, Radosław Wiśniewski, is a businessperson, and founder and chairperson of the Redan company. He is Polish.[4][5] Her mother, Piengjai Wiśniewska, 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 migrant 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] In 2025, she became a member of the council of the Jan Olszewski Aid to Poles in the East Foundation.[22]
Political career
In 2019, Uznańska-Wiśniewska 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.[23] 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.[24]
In 2023, Uznańska-Wiśniewska 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.[25] She finished with 25,436 votes (5.57%).[26] Uznańska-Wiśniewska became the secretary of the Sejm, and a member of the Commission of Communications with Poles in Abroad, Commission of Foreign Affairs, and Commission of National Defense.[27][28] Later, in 2024, she became member of the Civic Platform party.[28]
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Private life
In 2025, she married Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, an engineer and astronaut who became the second Polish national to go to space.[29]
Awards
- Karski2020 Award by the Jan Karski Educational Fundation (2020)[31]
- Green Hero Award by BNP Paribas Bank Polska (2022)[32]
- Medal for the 600th anniversary of Łódź (2023)[33]
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