Magda Czarnecka is a community activist, psychologist, translator and project coordinator of Feniks. Counselling, Personal Development and Support Services Ltd. She has MA in Psychology as well as International Relations from University of Lodz, Poland and BA in Psychology from Edinburgh Napier University. Both of her thesis were dedicated to psychological, historical and social aspects of Polish migration to Scotland.
She has been involved in Feniks since 2010, where she has been holding managerial positions since 2016, most recently as Chief Executive Officer. In addition to efforts to maintain and develop Feniks’s activities, her mission is to raise awareness of the social inequalities affecting Poles in Scotland.

She is the initiator of research projects (the level of suicide among Poles in Scotland and the impact of Brexit on the mental health of EU citizens in the United Kingdom) as well as social campaigns to raise awareness about mental health, domestic violence and vaccination against COVID-19.

She also cooperates with Glasgow University in projects researching CEE Communities. She has been involved in a variety of other cultural and community projects, supporting integration and political participation of ethnic minorities, residing in Scotland.