Meet our speaker - Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska
Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska
BIO
President of the TVN Foundation
Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska has been the president of the TVN Foundation since 2016, where she is responsible for all its activities in providing social assistance.
In TVN and TVN24 since 2003. She is a publicist, host of "Fakty po Faktach" programs on TVN24 and a reporter on the "Fakty" program. She covers political events, election campaigns and elections, and events in the Vatican. She also deals with American politics – she has covered the US presidential elections twice.
She started her work as a journalist in the first independent daily "Czas Krakowski", then in "Gazeta Krakowska". Since 1993 she has worked for "Wiadomości" TVP, where she was a parliamentary reporter, covering the most important political events, including all elections, as well as the pilgrimages of John Paul II to Poland and Ukraine. She also published in "Gazeta Wyborcza" and Tygodnik Powszechny. She worked for Radio TOK FM.
Author of books and four documentary films. Born in Krakow, graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Polish philology, also studied Theatre Studies at the PWST in Warsaw.