Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz

Dr Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz – cultural animator, political scientist, and researcher. She works as a Research Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, where she focuses on Roma migration. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in government administration, particularly in the field of state policies towards ethnic and national minorities and in coordinating Roma integration policies in Poland. From 2008 to 2014, she served as the Plenipotentiary of the Małopolska Voivode for National and Ethnic Minorities. She is the author of evaluation reports for the European Commission as part of the Roma Civil Monitor (2017–2020) and Roma Civil Monitor II (2021–2025) projects, as well as academic and popular science articles on Roma-related issues. She is a co-organiser of the international Roma Holocaust remembrance project Dikh He Na Bister. She serves on the boards of the Jaw Dikh Foundation and the ERGO Network and is a member of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

Photo: Piotr Markowski