Previously, Ada worked as a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent, with reporting published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Context and Gazeta Wyborcza. Her work spans investigative features, analyses, profiles, interviews and multimedia storytelling. Over the past decade, she has reported from Europe, South Asia and South America.
She began her career as an online editor and contributing writer at Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish daily newspaper, and its magazine titles, where she covered gender, culture and social justice – themes that continue to shape her reporting today.
She later served as Poland Correspondent for the NewsMavens platform, focusing on democratic backsliding and human-rights developments. Between 2018 and 2020, she worked as a freelance foreign correspondent based in New Delhi, India, reporting on gender and social issues. In 2022, she joined The New York Times Live desk during the outbreak of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, later contributing feature reporting, including a five-month investigation into conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine.
In 2018, Ada was nominated for Best Feature Writing at Poland’s “Wrażliwy” journalism competition, which highlights socially engaged and ethically responsible reporting. The nomination recognised her reported feature about the Indian model and acid attack survivor Reshma Qureshi.
In 2021, Ada was selected as the IWMF’s Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow from a pool of more than 100 applicants worldwide. During the fellowship, she reported for The New York Times and worked at the Opinion desk of The Boston Globe. She also conducted independent research on media freedom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies.
Ada studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London, Liberal Arts at the University of Warsaw, and narrative journalism at the Polish School of Reportage. Along with her native Polish, she speaks English fluently and has a working knowledge of French, Spanish and German.