Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer is an IUS Board Member, co-author of “Let’s Agree on Poland,” Associate Professor at Koźmiński University, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in 2014. Her books include (Not) Kidding: Online Tabloid Politics (Brill, 2024) and Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism (Palgrave, 2019). Her research explores civic practices, disinformation, and populism, and she frequently contributes to leading Polish and international media.
