Dr. Wiktor Dynarski works as a Senior Program Manager with Open Society Foundations‘ Open Grants Unit in New York City. Wiktor joined the Foundations’ Public Health Program in 2017 as a Senior Program Officer to lead a global grant-making portfolio on trans and intersex health and rights. In 2021, Wiktor moved to the Reassigned Grants Unit to lead the Organizational Grants Team as a Senior Team Manager until the unit’s closure in June of 2024.
Wiktor is active with the Global Philanthropy Project, and served as the Co-chair of its Trans and Intersex Funding Working Group between 2018 and 2021. Between 2019 and 2020 they also served on the Steering Committee of the International Trans Fund and between 2018 and 2019 they were also a member of Grantmakers United for Trans Communities, an initiative of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, which aims to inspire a philanthropic culture that is inclusive and supportive of trans people through grant- and decision-making. In December 2023, Wiktor joined the Program Committee of Warsaw Queer Museum, an initiative of Lambda Warsaw, founded to present the story of Polish queerness through engaging exhibitions of materials archived by the organization throughout the years.
Wiktor’s longest work experience was the time they spent at Trans-Fuzja Foundation, Poland’s first trans NGO. They became its volunteer in 2008, joined the board in 2009 and served as its Vice-President, became the International Affairs Officer in 2012 and settled as the President and Executive Director in 2014. Wiktor left the organization in 2017.
Between 2010 and 2014 Wiktor served as a Steering Committee member and later Co-chair of Transgender Europe – the European Network of trans organizations working for human rights of trans and gender variant people. Between 2013 and 2015 they served as a member (later also chair) of the Control Committee of TransFúzia, Slovakia’s first trans* association and between 2014 and 2016 as a member of Control Committee at Miłość Nie Wyklucza (Love Does Not Exclude), an organization working for marriage equality in Poland.
In 2021, Wiktor received a PhD from Warsaw University Institute of Applied Social Sciences. Their thesis concerned trans masculine experiences in Poland and Slovakia, and their research was partially funded by a stipend from the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic in 2013. Wiktor holds an MA in Polish Philology and a degree in editing from Warsaw University Faculty of Polish Studies.
Wiktor is also an author, educator, researcher and blogger, advising the SOGI-campaigns project, and sits on the Scientific Council of the Centre of Social Sexuality Studies at Warsaw University. A list of Wiktor’s academic works can be found on their academia.edu profile as well as the publications section on this website. Wiktor’s entire professional history can be also found on their LinkedIn profile.
