Iwona Korga
Iwona Drąg-Korga | |
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| President of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | |
| Assumed office 2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Pedagogical University of Cracow Queens College (CUNY) |
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Iwona Drąg-Korga (born July, 1967) is a Polish-American historian, archivist, educator, and the current President and Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.[1]
Biography
Iwona Drąg-Korga has lived in New York City since 1991. She has been associated with the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America since 1995, first as a librarian and archivist, then as a deputy director, an executive director since 2005, finally becoming president of the organization in 2016.[1]
In 1991, she graduated with a degree in history from the Pedagogical University of Cracow and a doctorate in humanities in 2004. In 2008, she obtained a master's degree in information science and library science from Queens College, City University of New York.[1]
In 2011, she published a book titled "Poland is fighting!" which discussed the propaganda policy of the Polish government-in-exile towards American society between 1939 and 1945.[1]
Korga serves on the board of directors at the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union.[2]
Awards and honours
In 2018, she received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland from the President of Poland during a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.[3] She has also been awarded the Medal of the Centennial of Regained Independence and the Medal of the National Education Commission.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Iwona Drąg-Korga". www.mabpz.org (in Polish). Permanent Conference of Polish Museums, Archives and Libraries in the West. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ "Leadership | PSFCU". en.psfcu.com. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ a b "Dr Iwona Korga, prezes Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Nowym Jorku, odznaczona przez Prezydenta RP". Radio RAMPA (Polish). 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
External links
- American women librarians
- American librarians
- Polish women educators
- Polish librarians
- Polish women librarians
- American educators
- American women educators
- Female archivists
- Living people
- American people of Polish descent
- People from Greenpoint, Brooklyn
- 21st-century Polish non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Polish women writers
- Queens College, City University of New York alumni
- 1967 births