Zuzanna Piotrowicz

Zuzanna Piotrowicz (born in 2000) holds a Bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in International Relations at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Her Master’s thesis explores the role of Indigenous communities in the Amazon within the global environmental dialogue, aligning with her academic focus on socio-environmental justice in South America and the resistance of Indigenous peoples to extractivist projects. In 2024, she participated in a bilateral exchange program at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru in Lima, during which she spent a week in Madre de Dios as part of a rainforest conservation course. Zuzanna is a co-organizer of the annual "Latin American Culture Days" international conference at Jagiellonian University and has written two academic articles examining the impact of the governments of Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the Brazilian Amazon. She is fluent in Spanish and is learning Portuguese.