“ I feel very fortunate to have met Sylwia! We both attended Flatiron School in Brooklyn. There, she befriended everyone, helped her classmates, worked her hardest, and always spoke up when she thought something was wrong, whether in code or personal interactions. Sylwia doesn’t just speak up to correct things, though. She also contributed with intelligent insights and great thorough and well-structured feedback. I always looked forward to grabbing lunch with her or tackling some trivial issue because it would inevitably devolve into some joke, comforting notion, or a deeper understanding of whatever topic I asked. Upon graduating, our school managed to snag her as a teacher. If you can lure her away from her current project consider yourself lucky.”
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Volunteer Experience
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React 18 Working Group Member
ReactJS
- Present 3 years 3 months
Education
React Core team invited a panel of experts, developers, library authors, and educators from across the React community to participate in our React 18 Working Group to provide feedback, ask questions, and collaborate on the release. The goal of the React 18 Working Group is to prepare the ecosystem for a smooth, gradual adoption of React 18 by existing applications and libraries.
✨ Read more: https://reactjs.org/blog/2021/06/08/the-plan-for-react-18.html
✨ Example of my contribution…React Core team invited a panel of experts, developers, library authors, and educators from across the React community to participate in our React 18 Working Group to provide feedback, ask questions, and collaborate on the release. The goal of the React 18 Working Group is to prepare the ecosystem for a smooth, gradual adoption of React 18 by existing applications and libraries.
✨ Read more: https://reactjs.org/blog/2021/06/08/the-plan-for-react-18.html
✨ Example of my contribution (one of the most publicly-viewed threads): https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/46 -
Co-Organizer
React Ladies
- Present 5 years 3 months
Science and Technology
Facilitating a meetup and a community of over 150 women and non-binary React and JS developers in New York and online.
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Community Organizer
WNB.rb
- 6 months
Science and Technology
- Organizing an international community of 100+ women and non-binary Rubyists on Slack and around monthly events
- Facilitating events, communicating with speakers and community members
- Running community Twitter account
✨ read more: https://twitter.com/wnb_rb
✨ listen to our podcast interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/tz/podcast/episode-373-wnb-rb-creating-a-community-with/id840890158?i=1000527357697 -
American Planning Board Member
Humanity in Action
- Present 5 years 5 months
Human Rights
Advising on program/curriculum development and selection of future Humanity in Action Fellows.
Humanity in Action is an international organization which educates, connects and inspires a global network of activists in the field of human rights, social justice and minority issues. Through its month-long summer academy on human rights, it empowers 120+ leaders to bring a change in their communities. Humanity in Action Poland runs additional programs for Polish changemakers. -
Community Member
ChangemakerXchange
- Present 8 years 10 months
Human Rights
ChangemakerXchange brings together some of the world's most dedicated young social innovators, activists and changemakers who solve a social or environmental problem and have the skills and mindset to collaborate for collective
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Forum Assistance
freeCodeCamp
- Present 4 years 7 months
Education
Answering questions of people learning to code. I answer questions on JS, React, HTML, CSS and general coding-related questions.
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Program Officer for Zielona Góra
The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP)
- 2 years
Education
As a Program Coordinator, I was responsible for supporting and supervising fourteen programs, as well as organizing events for scouts and scout leaders in the city. My major achievements included organizing two weekend-long gatherings for 120 youths aged 6-30, streamlining the program certification process and starting/publishing our monthly programming newsletter.
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Local Coordinator
4th LGBT Film Festival
- 4 months
Human Rights
Among my responsibilities were PR, venue management, logistics, VIP assistance.
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Team Leader
The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP)
- 8 years
Education
I was responsible for fifty-four kids and youths. In particular, my responsibilities included: program (including summer and winter camps, weekend trips and year-long activities), staff management, fundraising, and PR.
My major achievements included:
- fundraising $15,000 for a summer camp abroad and year-long programming;
- finding two venues and transforming them into Scouting centers;
- increasing the number of regular scouts from 15 to 54;
Publications
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About Dis/Ability. O Osobach z Niepełnosprawnościami.
Humanity in Action
This interactive book for teenagers is meant to assist them in learning about experiencing this world in different ways, as well as in helping them make the world more accessible and in battling ableism and other forms of discrimination. The primary target audience are teenagers in Poland.
The publication was consulted by a group of disability rights scholars and activists. It is available free of charge, on CC license. It has been distributed to schools and libraries across Poland.Other authors -
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From A do Z about LGBTQIAP. Interactive book.
Humanity in Action Poland / US Embassy in Warsaw
This interactive book for teenagers is meant to assist them in battling homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, sexism and other forms of discrimination. The primary target audience is queer teenagers from small towns who do not have access to this kind of education and information.
Co-created in cooperation with a group of teenage queer activists and consulted with GLSEN. Together with book, we published lesson and workshop scenarios and ran events in the entire country to…This interactive book for teenagers is meant to assist them in battling homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, sexism and other forms of discrimination. The primary target audience is queer teenagers from small towns who do not have access to this kind of education and information.
Co-created in cooperation with a group of teenage queer activists and consulted with GLSEN. Together with book, we published lesson and workshop scenarios and ran events in the entire country to build/mobilize queer teen community. The book is available free of charge, on CC license.Other authors -
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About Refugees. Interactive Book Against Xenophobia.
Warsaw City Hall // Humanity in Action Poland
How do you engage teenagers in a dialogue about xenophobia and racism in these polarized times?
This interactive book invites a teenage reader (user) to investigate and challenge their assumptions and biases about refugees and migrants in Poland and in the EU. The book came about as a response to overwhelming racism in Polish politics, culture and media and a lack of diversity training in the Polish schools.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Warsaw City Hall, the book reached…How do you engage teenagers in a dialogue about xenophobia and racism in these polarized times?
This interactive book invites a teenage reader (user) to investigate and challenge their assumptions and biases about refugees and migrants in Poland and in the EU. The book came about as a response to overwhelming racism in Polish politics, culture and media and a lack of diversity training in the Polish schools.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Warsaw City Hall, the book reached 10,000 students in Warsaw.Other authors -
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Haaretz Op-ed: התנועה בפולין החלה לדעוך, ואז הגיעה הכנסייה (Anniversary of MeToo Movement in Poland)
Haaretz
See publicationOn the one-year anniversary of the MeToo movement, I wonder about its aftermath and future in Poland. I offered my take at the possible reasons for why the Polish #MeToo has been just a mini-version of the what we witnessed in the US and about the challenges concerning the ongoing discussion on pedophilia in the Polish Church.
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On Jews and Jewesses. Interactive Book Against Anti-Semitism.
OSCE / Humanity in Action Poland
How do you teach teenagers about antisemitism and hate speech in a country where these subjects are taboo?
This interactive book invites a teenage reader (user) to investigate and challenge their assumptions and biases about the Jewish community and culture in Poland. Initially published by Humanity in Action Poland, the book reached 15,000 teenagers in Poland and over 100 libraries. The English version has been published by OSCE and was distributed in the EU.Other authors -
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O Żydach i Żydówkach. Interaktywna Książka przeciwko antysemityzmowi.
Humanity in Action Poland
How do you teach teenagers about antisemitism and hate speech in a country where these subjects are taboo?
This interactive book invites a teenage reader (user) to investigate and challenge their assumptions and biases about the Jewish community and culture in Poland. Published by Humanity in Action Poland (with three reprints) it reached 15,000 teenagers in Poland and over 100 libraries.Other authors -
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Coloring Book with Superwomen
MamyGłos Foundation
Can you name three presidents? And three female presidents? Did you know that the first programmer of the world was a woman and her name was Ada Lovelace? If not, this coloring book is for you!
This book features 30 women who changed the world - from Nefretiti to Nana Asma'u or from Rosalind Franklin to Hedy Lamarr. Created in a collaborative way with 5 contributors, 4 researchers and 4 illustrators. Distributed to over 5,000 teenage girls from small towns in Poland. The book total…Can you name three presidents? And three female presidents? Did you know that the first programmer of the world was a woman and her name was Ada Lovelace? If not, this coloring book is for you!
This book features 30 women who changed the world - from Nefretiti to Nana Asma'u or from Rosalind Franklin to Hedy Lamarr. Created in a collaborative way with 5 contributors, 4 researchers and 4 illustrators. Distributed to over 5,000 teenage girls from small towns in Poland. The book total revenue supports self-defense workshops for teenage girls across Poland.Other authors -
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Israelis on Emigration. Report.
Schwarzkopf Stiftung.
See publicationNowadays the main migration destination chosen by the third-generation Israelis is
Germany. Berlin is now hosting the Israeli population of thousands. There is no data available as to the exact number of Israelis in the cities nor are there any academic publications on the subject yet
according to Bloomberg News the population in Berlin has risen by 40% since 2006.
There is a certain dose of social or historical irony in the choice of the hosting country.
According to my preliminary…Nowadays the main migration destination chosen by the third-generation Israelis is
Germany. Berlin is now hosting the Israeli population of thousands. There is no data available as to the exact number of Israelis in the cities nor are there any academic publications on the subject yet
according to Bloomberg News the population in Berlin has risen by 40% since 2006.
There is a certain dose of social or historical irony in the choice of the hosting country.
According to my preliminary research, Berlin being stigmatized in the collective imagination with
the horror of the second world war receives descendants of those who fled from the Nazi
Germany. However, the migrants often point out that that is where they finally feel at home – that
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The Holocaust in Israeli Media Discourse: from a painful memory to a rhetoric figure.
Zwrot historyczny w naukach humanistycznych
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Club Carib: a geo-ethnography of seduction in a Lisbon dancing bar, Social & Cultural Geography
Social & Cultural Geography
See publicationOver the last three decades, nightlife has become one of the most important time–spaces for the reproduction of human relationships. In this paper, we examine Club Carib, a particular nightlife space in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto neighbourhood. Our focus is on the flirting strategies that occur during dance sessions. We examine the ways in which these seduction strategies operate in relation to particular constructions of race, class, cultural capital and gender. Particular attention is paid to the…
Over the last three decades, nightlife has become one of the most important time–spaces for the reproduction of human relationships. In this paper, we examine Club Carib, a particular nightlife space in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto neighbourhood. Our focus is on the flirting strategies that occur during dance sessions. We examine the ways in which these seduction strategies operate in relation to particular constructions of race, class, cultural capital and gender. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which young adult straight males use their bodies to negotiate the dance space. We describe how the dance space is an environment in which the (hetero)normative and patriarchal character of Lisbon’s nightlife is often reinscribed, but also at times contested.
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Becoming Israeli, becoming… Hebrew? – sociolinguistic landscapes of Israel.
Tożsamość w Komunikowaniu, University of Zielona Góra
This paper scrutinizes the relations between language, nation and state in the context of the Israeli society and its collective identity. A critical approach at a commonly-agreed model is taken and after the analysis of the history and present demographics of Israel, a revised model is suggested.
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Liberating Colonization: Otherizing ”The Arab” in Israeli Pioneers’ Films,
Palimpsest Journal
See publicationThe establishment of Israel in 1948 as well as the wars following it and the occupation of Palestine were buttressed by a powerful discursive tool, Orientalism. Orientalism, first described by Edward W. Said, refers to othering the Others by presenting them as backward and irrational and thus in this context dangerous or in need of colonisation. This is clearly visible in the Israeli propaganda films from the Pioneers’ times. In this paper I will elaborate on this kind of discourse, pointing…
The establishment of Israel in 1948 as well as the wars following it and the occupation of Palestine were buttressed by a powerful discursive tool, Orientalism. Orientalism, first described by Edward W. Said, refers to othering the Others by presenting them as backward and irrational and thus in this context dangerous or in need of colonisation. This is clearly visible in the Israeli propaganda films from the Pioneers’ times. In this paper I will elaborate on this kind of discourse, pointing out that the stereotypical depiction of the Arab has its roots in Israel’s Pioneer period.
Courses
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Accessible Web Design by Google (2 weeks)
tinyurl.com/jupwuah
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Counteracting Gender-Based Discrimination and Violence (20h)
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Design Thinking (15h)
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Effective Mediation Techniques in Conflict Resolution (20h)
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Gender-Based Discrimination and Violence in Polish Schools (8h)
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International Course on Intercultural Competence (2 weeks)
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Workshop on Human Trafficking in Europe (4h)
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Honors & Awards
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Udacity Facebook Scholar
Udacity and Facebook
Together with Udacity, Facebook runs a three-month scholarship program that enables students to learn the latest privacy-preserving tools and techniques, such as OpenMined's PySyft. With these tools, students will be able to build better AI models by securely accessing distributed private data and keeping this data secure and private during the model training process.
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Laureate Global Fellowship (Madrid, Spain)
International Youth Foundation
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Entrepreneurship for Good Fellowship (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
the DO School
During this three-month fellowship, we devised a new program which helps NEETs in Duque de Caixas (Brazil) and Kigali (Rwanda) get necessary qualifications to find employment in fields directly linked to communities' chilling problems.
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Ashoka Changemakers Fellowship (Palermo, Italy)
Ashoka
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Bosch Alumna
Robert Bosch Foundation
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Schwarzkopf Stiftung Research Grant (Berlin, Germany)
Schwarzkopf Stiftung
This month-long research grant allowed me to prepare the grounds for my Master's thesis. I researched Israeli and Palestinian communities in Berlin.
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Humanity in Action Fellowship (Warsaw, Poland)
Humanity in Action
During this month-long summer academy I learnt about human rights and minority issues in Poland. Together with my team, we devised a campaign against hate speech in public transportation.
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Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s Award for Academic Excellence 2011-2013 and 2015-2017
Adam Mickiewicz University
I received this award every year due to my GPA (97-100%), conferences and publications.
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Zielona Góra University Rector’s Award for Outstanding Performance 2008-2010
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I received this award every year due to my GPA, conferences and publications.
Languages
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Polish
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Hebrew
Limited working proficiency
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Spanish
Professional working proficiency
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Portuguese
Professional working proficiency
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German
Limited working proficiency
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