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. She also attended courses at the School for Leaders in Warsaw. 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.

Politics and social activism Hanna Gill-Piątek with politicians of the Poland 2050 in Sejm of Poland in 2022. In 2005, she became one of the leaders of the Chomiczówka Against Degradation Association (Stowarzyszenie „Chomiczówka Przeciw Degradacji”), and co-founder of the All-Poland Movement for the City Bypass "Not Through the City!" (Ogólnowarszawski Ruch na Rzecz Obwodnicy Pozamiejskiej „Nie Przez Miasto!”).

She is a member of the Women's Congress, Municipal City Movements, and council of the Metropolitan Revitalization Congress. She organised performance art events, such as Backwards March for Tolerance in 2010, co-hosted with Joanna Rajkowska. In 2017, she lived in a shipping container for 3 days in Szczecin, to highlight the situation of evicted tenants. From 2011 to 2014, she organized political debates for Krytyka Polityczna. It was also nominated to the Equality Glasses award (Okulary Równości) by Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation.

From 2006 to 2018, she belonged to the Greens political party, in which she was national management secretary and member of its national council. In 2006 and 2010, she unsuccessfully run for office of a councilor in Warsaw. In 2015, she candidated to be a member of the Sejm of Poland, on the list of United Left, representing the Greens. In 2018, she co-founded association Yes for Łódź, and became its management secretary. The same year, she run as its member for an office of a councilor in Łódź. In 2019, she became a coordinator of newly formed party of the Spring, in the constituency no. 10, and also unsuccessfully run in the elections to the European Parliament.

In 2019, she was elected to the Sejm of Poland from the constituency no. 9, centred around Łódź, receiving 14,422 votes. She represented the Sping on the list of the Democratic Left Alliance. In the parliament, she became the chairperson of the City Parliamentary Team, the deputy chairperson of the Łódź Parliamentary Team, as well as the member of the Infrastructure Committee, Local Government and Regionalal Politics Committee, Construction and Land and Housing Management Permanent Subcommittee, Publice Finance Committee, Taxiation System Oversight Permanent Subcommittee, LGBT+ Community Equality Parliamentary Team, and Transit Exclusion Counteraction Parliamentary Team. In February 2021, together with Joanna Mucha and Paulina Hennig-Kloska, she formed the Poland 2050 parliamentary group, becoming its chairperson. On 8 February 2023, she resigned from the party, and in September 2023, she had joined the Civic Coalition parliamentary group. That year, she unsuccessfully run for the relection. In 2024, she later joined the Civic Platform, and was elected as a member of the Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik in 2024, and also joined the afterwards. The same year, she unsuccessfully run in the elections to the European Parliament.

In 2023, the Supreme Council of Ukraine awarded her the White Cross "Honor et Gloria", for her activism and help regarding the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Personal life Gill-Piątek identifies as bisexual. She was married twice, including to writer Tomasz Piątek. Gill-Piątek was also in a romantic relationship with politician Anna Maria Żukowska, who also has been a member of the Sejm since 2019. She has a son, Martyn Gill, who is a painter responsible for several murals in Łódź.

Written works Bieda. Przewodnik dla dzieci (together with Henryka Krzywonos; Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw, 2010) "Powrót do Norwegii, w której nigdy nie byłam" in Norwegia. Przewodnik nieturystyczny (2011, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw, pp. 6–10) "Seriale. Przewodnik Krytyki Politycznej" in Autostopem przez Chomiczówkę (collaborative work; Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw, 2011) "Autostopem przez Chomiczówkę" in Tiry na tory. Poradnik walczących społeczności (together with B. Martela; Federacja Zielonych – Grupa Krakowska, Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich, Łódź-Kraków, 2012, pp. 44–61) Rewolucja 1905. Przewodnik Krytyki Politycznej (collaborative work; Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Łódź, 2013) "Obywatele decydują: poradnik działaczy obywatelskich" (collaborative work; Fundacja Rozwoju Turystyki i Kultury and Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich, Łódź, 2014) Analiza dalszych, możliwych działań legislacyjnych Rządu po ewentualnym wejściu w życie ustawy o rewitalizacji, z uwzględnieniem wniosków z dyskusji toczącej się w trakcie konsultacji projektu (collaborative work; Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, Warsaw, 2015) "Kontenery. Instrukcja obsługi dla artystów" in Mieszkanie i dom jako nieoczywistość kulturowo-społeczna (LangeL – Łucja Lange, Łódź, 2017, pp. 13–50) "Krótkie historie rewitalizacyjne" in Miasto na plus. Eseje o polskich przestrzeniach miejskich (together with Jacek Grunt-Mejer; Wysoki Zamek, Kraków, 2018)

Electoral results + Year Office Party District Votes Result . Total % . 2006 Warsaw City Council 5th The Greens No. 5 656 0.86% 24th 2010 Warsaw City Council 5th Democratic Left Alliance No. 5 339 0.49% 18th 2015 Sejm of Poland 8th United Left No. 9 3,256 0.91% 21st 2018 Łódź City Council 8th Yes for Łódź No. 5 427 1.51% 14th 2019 European Parliament 9th Spring No. 6 3,614 0.40% 27th 2019 Sejm of Poland 9th Democratic Left Alliance No. 9 14,422 3.47% 2nd 2023 Sejm of Poland 10th Civic Coalition No. 9 5,508 1.21% 18th 2024 Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik 7th Civic Coalition No. 1 24,735 10.22% 3rd 2024 European Parliament 10th Civic Coalition No. 6 10,740 1.42% 13th

Awards and decorations White Cross "Honor et Gloria" (Ukraine, 2023)