Hanna Gill-Piątek

Hanna Beata Gill-Piątek (née Stachowiak; born 13 April 1974) is a Polish politician, social activist, civil sevant, columnist, and graphic designer. Since 2024, she is a member of the Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik, and from 2019 to 2023, was a member of the Sejm of Poland. She belongs to Civic Platform party, and in the past, was also a member of the Greens, Spring, and Poland 2050.

Education and career

Hanna Gill-Piątek (née Stachowiak) was born on 12 April 1974 in Łódź, Poland, where she also attended the Nicholas Copernicus 1st General Education High School. Her parents were scientists. She studied graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łodź and Szczecin Art Academy, from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2017, after previously halting her education in 2000. In 2023, she received a master's degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Łazarski University in Warsaw. She also attended courses at the School for Leaders in Warsaw. Between 2000 and 2006, she worked as graphic designer in Warsaw advertising agencies.

Gill-Piątek worked as a regular columnist for newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza, Przekrój, Dziennik Łódzki, and Dziennik Opinii Krytyki Politycznej. She wrote about women's rights, local democracy, and tenant issues. From 2014 to 2016, she worked in the revitalizaton office of the Łódź City Hall, where she managed local pilot experiments of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development. One of results of her work was creation of the first in Poland centre of knowledge about the revitalizaton. From 2016 to 2017, she was an acting director of the Social Issues Department of the city hall in Gorzów Wielkopolski. She was also an expert of government revitalizaton programmes, and an advisor of the Association of Polish Cities.