Mirosława Makuchowska (she/her)

executive director

mmakuchowska@kph.org.pl

At the KPH since 2006. She began as the coordinator of the now-defunct local KPH branch in Wrocław. In 2009, she joined the KPH staff team in Warsaw, where she served as a project coordinator. That same year, Mirosława was elected Vice President of the KPH Board, a position she held for six years. In 2014, she took on the role of Advocacy Director for a four-year term. From 2018 to 2023, she served as deputy director and program manager at KPH. Mirosława was also a member of KPH’s disciplinary committee. She currently holds the position of executive director.

dr Joanna Skonieczna (she/her)

movement support and social advocacy manager

jskonieczna@kph.org.pl

She joined the KPH team in 2018 as Program Coordinator for Equal Treatment in Health and Education. Since 2022, she has been part of the team supporting the LGBT+ movement. In 2023, she became Program Manager, and since 2025 she has served as Movement Support and Social Advocacy Manager. She is responsible, among other things, for long-term planning and implementation of the organization’s substantive activities.

Przemek Walas (he/him)

advocacy manager

pwalas@kph.org.pl

He joined the KPH team in July 2024 to take on the position of advocacy manager. Together with the advocacy team, he develops and implements advocacy strategies focused on introducing legal solutions in favor of LGBT+ people. He is the co-founder and current president of the Katowice-based association Tęczówka.

Monika Weryszko (she/her)

PR and communications manager

mweryszko@kph.org.pl

She has worked for an employer branding agency, online portals, a career office, and organizations focusing on diversity, inclusion, and mental health. She has also collaborated with NGOs as well as the HoReCa and industrial sectors. Her cooperation with KPH began with coordinating communication for the Crowns of Equality 2023. She currently co-creates the PR and communications team.

Agnieszka Gilska-Janus (she/her)

finance and administration manager

agilska-janus@kph.org.pl

She joined the KPH team in 2023. She is responsible for financial matters, including budgeting, financial reporting, and grant settlements. An economist by education, she has over a decade of experience working in management offices of organizations of various sizes. In recent years, she has been involved with the nonprofit sector.

Annamaria Linczowska (she/her)

advocacy and litigation officer

alinczowska@kph.org.pl

She joined KPH in 2022 as advocacy and legal actions coordinator. Annamaria is a member of the association’s program team responsible for implementing KPH’s strategy. She coordinates one of KPH’s key areas of work – Legal Proceedings. She is also part of the team responsible for international political advocacy.

Olga Pawłowska-Plesińska (she/her)

advocacy coordinator

oplesinska@kph.org.pl

She began working at KPH in 2023 by coordinating the activities of the Equality Watch Coalition for Equal Rights, representing the Association in committees monitoring EU funds. She currently works as political advocacy coordinator, responsible, among other things, for planning and implementing advocacy activities, networking interest groups, and co-creating advocacy communications.

Magdalena Więch (she/her)

LGBT+ movement support program coordinator

mwiech@kph.org.pl

She joined the team in 2024 as  LGBT+ movement support program coordinator. She is a member of the program staff responsible for implementing KPH’s strategy. Her duties include planning and executing activities addressing the needs of the LGBT+ movement, strengthening relationships between organizations, groups, and individuals within the movement, and building connections with other social justice movements.

Dorota Jerzak (she/her)

office coordinator

djerzak@kph.org.pl

She joined KPH in 2023 as the association’s office coordinator. She is part of the financial and administrative team.

Agnieszka Kulikowska

co-chair of the KPH Board

She gained management experience as a Senior Partner at the international firm Page Executive, which specializes in recruiting executives for local, regional, and global boards—a company she helped introduce to the Polish market in 2014. She is the Global Leader of the Diversity & Inclusion Ambassadors Network at Page Executive and a member of the local board of Michael Page, Poland’s largest permanent recruitment firm, where she has worked for 15 years. She has long been engaged in promoting diversity and inclusion, women’s leadership, and LGBT+ rights in corporate environments.

Miko Czerwiński

co-chair of the KPH Board

An activist with over 15 years of experience. In addition to KPH, he serves on the boards of the Równość.org.pl Foundation and Queerowy Maj Association, working for LGBTQIA people in southeastern Poland. He uses his extensive experience as an external consultant for NGOs in the areas of strategic management, advocacy, and campaigning. He works as Campaigns Team Manager at Amnesty International, focusing on sexual and reproductive rights, and combating violence and discrimination. He is also a trained observer and educator. Previously, he worked on development projects in East Africa in cooperation with UN-HABITAT and coordinated social projects in London. He holds a degree in Cultural Management from Jagiellonian University.

Paweł Szulewski

secretary of the Board

Serving his first term on the KPH Board. He gained experience in the third sector through work with numerous NGOs, including since 2020 with the Federation of Equality Signs, which runs the Krakow Equality Center DomEQ. He is engaged in international political advocacy for equality and combating discrimination and homophobia, including during the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Poland. Paweł is an expert in contract negotiation and management in the IT sector, as well as in IT and new technology law. In his free time, he is a marathon runner and travel enthusiast.

Urszula Jakubowska

treasurer of the Board

Treasurer of the KPH Board, with extensive experience in advancing LGBT+ inclusion in business. Since 2018, she has been a member of LGBT+ employee networks. From 2020 to 2022, she chaired the LGBT+ Employee Group at Citibank Europe PLC. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Group at ING Hubs Poland. A graduate of Queer Studies. In her free time, she is passionate about music—she was for many years responsible for the music platform at KPH during Warsaw Equality Parades.

Marek Szolc

member of the Board

A lawyer and expert in public policy and corporate social responsibility. He serves as Head of Business Ethics at EcoVadis—an international ESG rating agency—and is the founder of its LGBT+ employee network Rainbovadis. He is co-founder and Vice President of the TTT Institute – Rainbow Think Tank, a foundation supporting the Polish LGBT+ ecosystem with modern know-how and tools for effective scaling. From 2018 to 2024, he served as a Warsaw City Councilor. He co-authored the Warsaw Declaration for the LGBT+ Community and the Civil Partnership Bill in 2018.

Blanka Rozbicka

member of the Board

A member of the KPH Board with long-standing experience in promoting LGBT+ inclusion in business. She gained management experience as the leader of the LGBT+ employee network at NatWest Poland. In 2017, she received the People Who Change Business award from the Responsible Business Forum in the Diversity category. Blanka is also a co-founder of an inter-company network advocating for LGBT+ people. She played an active role in organizing the LGBT+ Diamonds Awards, held for the first time in Poland in 2018. She is new to the KPH Board—this is her first experience serving on the board of a non-governmental organization.