Olga Brzezińska – cultural manager, EU studies scholar, university lecturer. Deputy Director of programming and strategy at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Co-founder and President of the City of Literature Foundation lecturer at the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Originator, co-creator, and organiser of national and international artistic, literary, and educational events, publicist and host of the “New State of Focus” podcast (Liberte!Talks). Recipient of Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków in the field of arts management, member of the Council for Equal Treatment under the Mayor of Kraków and the Mentor Board of the Rafał Brzoska Foundation. Programme Director of the Leadership Academy for Poland, co-founder of the Executives for Impact initiative supporting the development of NGOs.