“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Olivia Zukowski is 24. She was born in June 2000 in Białystok in Eastern Poland close to the Russian border. Her parents escaped Communist Poland in the 1980s, moved to the United States and became US citizens. They returned to their homeland after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1998 but decided to move back when their daughter was 4 years old. She has no siblings.
Olivia grew up on Long Island as a slightly nerdy girl. She excelled in school especially in STEM subjects, played beach volleyball, went to Polish school on Saturdays and wanted to become a doctor.
She has dual US-Polish citizenship, is almost fluent in Polish, speaks some French, has traveled to different countries in Europe and returns to Poland from time to time to visit with family and friends. And eat her favorite Polish dish: pierogis.
She loves languages, her diverse environment, and being outdoors, choosing to go to college at the University of Miami where she got a BA in Ecosystem Science and Policy and Political Science and an MA in Public Administration. She is now at the UM School of Law and particularly enjoys working on issues at the intersection of policy and law. She lives in Brickell, a neighborhood she loves.
She hopes to pass the Florida Bar in the summer of 2025 and will move to Tampa, near where her parents now live, with a job as Business Litigation Associate at Carlton Fields waiting for her.