Dr. Wiktor Dynarski works as an Associate Director 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.
Between 2018 and 2021 they were active with the Global Philanthropy Project and served as the Co-chair of its Trans and Intersex Funding Working Group followed by a 2019-2020 membership with the Steering Committee of the International Trans Fund. 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 were they served until 2025.
Before transitioning to philanthropy, Wiktor worked with Trans-Fuzja Foundation, Poland’s first non-profit focused on the trans community in all if its diversity. They joined the organization as a volunteer in 2008, became a member of its Executive Board in 2009 and later on served as its Vice-President, subsequently becoming the International Affairs Officer in 2012 and settling as the organization’s President and Executive Director in 2014 until their departure in 2017.
Between 2010 and 2014 Wiktor also 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 focused on advocacy 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 until 2025 sat 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.
