Education
University of Warsaw.
University of Warsaw.
She was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
A native of the Baltic seaport city of Gdańsk, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka earned a degree in ethnography from the University of Warsaw and, during the 1970s and 80s was employed at the Institute for Science Policy and Higher Education (1974-1976) and the Institute of Socialist Nations at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976-1986). Although not politically active during the Communist period, near its end, in the mid-1980s, she joined the League of Polish Women then, in 1991, became active in Ruch Demokratyczno-Społeczny and, in the election of 1993, was elected to the Sejm as a member of the Labor Union party. A dedicated feminist, she remained a member of Sejm 1993-1997, Sejm 2001-2005, Sejm 2005-2007 and was elected for the fourth time in October 2007, running on the platform of the new Left and Democrats party.