I am:
- child-friendly cities expert and advocate, researcher, urban anti-educator, mother,
- speaker at international conferences,
- author of articles, conference papers and children’s books „Urban Games” co-created with children,
- founder and author of a bilingual cityforchildren.pl covering the topic of child-friendly cities and placemaking,
- trainer, I’ve created an authoring program of empowering children in urban space, I lead awareness raising trainings for adults and workshops for children and adults,
- EU expert in Urbact IV in Communication and Education,
- member of international placemaking networks: a leader in Placemaking Europe Network and a member of KIDS working group, a fellow in Conscious Warsaw (chapter of Conscious Cities movement).
20 years of expertise in creating and implementing communication and educational campaigns in leading Polish PR consultancies and as in-house advisor has taught me to look at problems from the point of view of multiple stakeholders. I have experience of working with cities, business, public administration, universities and non-governmental organisations.
Graduate of among others:
- Post-MBA Leadership Academy (French Institute of Management, Warsaw),
- Urban studies (Institute for Public Space Research, Warsaw),
- UrbanismX: Urban Design for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism (Delft University of Technology).
For 6 years I have been researching how urban space answers the needs of children, with the special emphasis on children age 7-10, who start their urban independence.
Based in Warsaw, Poland.