Marzena Rafalska

Marzena Rafalska is an educator and educational consultant specialising in civic education and human rights education (EDC/HRE), education policy and management, and teacher training and professional development. She has extensive international experience, having worked with the Council of Europe, OSCE, UNICEF, the World Bank, Save the Children, and the European Wergeland Centre across Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia.

From 2005 to 2025, Marzena coordinated Polish development cooperation projects and contributed to the establishment of 202 alternative kindergartens in Georgia and 48 in Ukraine. In Uzbekistan, she worked as a UNICEF consultant, leading the development of new professional standards for teachers. She also served as lead trainer of the “Democratic School in Ukraine” programme, where she was responsible for preparing national trainers and delivering training at scale.

A certified teacher, Marzena has over 20 years of experience working in a teacher training centre. She has authored numerous professional development programmes for teachers and school leaders, as well as methodological publications focusing on human rights, democratic competences, and intercultural education. Her institutional cooperation includes work with the Ministry of National Education, the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, and the Centre for Education Development, where she coordinated nationwide education projects.

Marzena is a graduate of the Human Rights School of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), an HFHR trainer, and an alumna of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).