KASIA JAGIEŁŁO

Green Warsaw Competition juror.

Climate activist and expert on biodiversity. Member of the Organic Farming Council at the Polish Ministry of Agriculture between 2014-2018, advocate for sea and ocean preservation, diving instructor, translator and traveler. A longtime frontline Greenpeace activist and co-creator of the organization’s Adopt a Bee / Adoptuj Pszczołę campaign. In 2016, Jagiełło occupied the rooftop of the Polish Ministry of the Environment as part of a campaign to turn the whole Białowieża Forest into a national park and then blocked the harvesters logging the trees in the forest. In 2016 Wysokie Obcasy declared her to be among the 50 most influential Polish women and in 2018 – among the boldest. Initiator of the “Mental crisis among individuals involved in non-governmental organizations and informal movements” conference and support program organized in cooperation with the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Protection of Civil Rights. Graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland. After a series of injures, she is taking up running again.