Radical Communicators Network

Marzena Zukowska

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Marzena Zukowska

(They/Them)

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Marzena Zukowska (they/them) is a Liverpool-based organiser, communications strategist, and co-director of Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC). For a decade, they have developed narrative and organising strategies for leading social and political movements in the US, UK and Europe. Marzena is a trustee of Migrants Organise and board director at Migrant Democracy Project. As a member of the Radical Communicators Network Leadership Team, they are working on the first RadComms anthology: Framing New Worlds: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements (for publication in 2024). They were published in two other anthologies: Queer Activism After Marriage Equality and Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry. Marzena is a queer, nonbinary Polish immigrant who was born in Białystok, Poland and grew up undocumented in Chicago, United States.

Three words that describe you:
Unwavering, Optimistic, Restless

Your favorite food:

My mom makes these amazing Polish-style savory crepes that are overflowing with cheese, onions, tomatoes, and chunks of ham.

What is your vision for RadComms?

My vision for RadComms is like the world we want to build: bountiful and limitless with no patience for borders and binaries.