Danuta Kuroń

Kuroń studied history at the University of Warsaw from 1968 to 1970, and in 1976 she graduated with a history degree from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.^[1] From 1980 to 1981 she was the editor of prominent trade union magazines.^[1] Throughout the early 1980s she was heavily involved in underground union and strike organizing, particularly the union Solidarity.^[1][2] Her work as a union activist, and her activity with Solidarity, was documented by Shana Penn (pl) in her 2003 book Podziemie kobiet (published in 2006 in English as Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland).^[3]

Kuroń covered the Polish Round Table Agreement for the Information Service of Solidarity,^[1] and helped establish the parliamentary office of her husband Jacek Kuroń^[4] following his election to the Sejm in the 1989 Polish legislative election. She was subsequently involved with the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action,^[5] and worked for Gazeta Wyborcza.^[6]

In 2000, Danuta and Jacek Kuroń founded the Jan Józef Lipski Common University in Teremiski.^[7]

In 2011, Kuroń was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.^[6] Kuroń also received the Order of the Smile.^[8]

Kuroń was a member of the Consultative Council in 2020.^[9]

• Knight's Cross, Order of Polonia Restituta (2011)
• Order of the Smile