Agnieszka Ziółkowska is a journalist and publicist. She graduated in Italian and Spanish studies from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe in Natolin. She has analyzed new social movements focusing on the Spanish “Outraged”, and in her master’s thesis at the College of Europe she analyzed the mechanisms of civil budget as a tool of democratization and empowerment of residents, using the example of Polish cities. She’s one of the initiators and organizers of the First Congress of Urban Movements and member of the Krytyka Polityczna team.