dr Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz

dr Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz

Dr. Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz is a cultural animator, political scientist and researcher. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in government administration in the field of state policy towards ethnic and national minorities and in coordinating integration policy towards the Roma in Poland. In 2008-2014 she was Plenipotentiary of the Małopolska Governor for National and Ethnic Minorities. Author of evaluation reports for the European Commission under the Roma Civil Monitor project (2017-2020) and Roma Civil Monitor II (2021-2025). Author of scientific and popular science articles on Roma issues. For the past 13 years, she has co-organized an international Roma Holocaust commemoration project with the Ternype network: “Dikh He Na Bister”. Board member of the Jaw Dikh Foundation. Member of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC). Cooperates in the context of Roma communities with OSCE/ODIHR/Contact Point on Roma and Sinti, NDI, IOM, European Commission, Council of Europe, CEU and ERGO Network. Fellow of the U.S. Department of State International Leadership Visitor Program (2010), graduate of the Roma Access Program at Central European University (2006) and intern at the European Commission (2005).

 

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