Background
Alex Storozynski was born in Polish neighborhood in Greenpoint, New York on 1961.
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Alex Storozynski
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Storozynski has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he was involved in the Model United Nations program, and interned for the Legislative Gazette. He earned an Master of Surgery from the.
He was also a post graduate fellow at the University of Warsaw in Poland.
Career
After World World War II they settled in London. Starting in 1988, Storozynski worked as an editor in New York, first at the Queens Chronicle, and later for the Empire State Report, based in Albany, New New York In 1993, he became a press secretary, serving the New York State Thruway Authority, the New York State Canal Corporation, and the New York Attorney General.
He was the founding editor of amNewYork.
He later was the city editor of the New York Sun. He has also been published in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, Newsday and other publications.
He was a chairman of the Polish-Slavic Federal Cr Union Board of Directors. In November 2008, he was elected President of The Kosciuszko Foundation.
Storozynski"s essay "From Serfdom to Freedom: Polish Catholics Find A Refuge," was published in the book Catholics in New York, Society Culture, and Politics, 1808–1946, to coincide with the exhibit on Catholics at the Museum of the City of New New York
Achievements
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His biography of Kosciuszko, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, was published in 2009 by Saint Martin"s Press, winning several awards, including the 2010 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and the Knights Templar Military History Award, the "Military Order of Saint Louis." In September 2011, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski awarded Storozynski with the Officer"s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In February 2012, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, President Lech Walesa awarded Storozynski with the Lech Walesa Media Award.
Membership
Storozynski was a member of the New York Daily News editorial board, starting in 1996.
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Catholic