Iwona Drąg-Korga (born July, 1967) is a Polish-American historian, archivist, educator, and the current President and Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.
Biography
Iwona Drąg-Korga has lived in New York City since 1991. She has been associated with the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America since 1995, first as a librarian and archivist, then as a deputy director, an executive director since 2005, finally becoming president of the organization in 2016.
In 1991, she graduated with a degree in history from the Pedagogical University of Cracow and a doctorate in humanities in 2004. In 2008, she obtained a master's degree in information science and library science from Queens College, City University of New York.
In 2011, she published a book titled "Poland is fighting!" which discussed the propaganda policy of the Polish government-in-exile towards American society between 1939 and 1945.
Korga serves on the board of directors at the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union.
Awards and honours
In 2018, she received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland from the President of Poland during a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. She has also been awarded the Medal of the Centennial of Regained Independence and the Medal of the National Education Commission.