Urszula Solarz

Urszula is a junior at Ezra Stiles College interested in urban studies and cybersecurity. Her interest in these two fields emerges from growing up between New York City and Poland, always keen on observing how places change over time.

Though an engineer by training, she is a writer at heart, with prose and research published around the world, from Warsaw to Sydney. Within urban studies, she uses her first-hand experience at leading private equity and venture capital funds to document how international finance dictates where and how cities grow and die. On the other hand, within cybersecurity, she adamantly advocates for stronger data privacy and national preparedness for infrastructure cyberattacks in an increasingly multi-polar world.

At Yale, she helps lead the Polish Students Society. In this capacity, she often volunteers at rural schools, teaches Slavic culinary history, as well as serves as a delegate to events like the Polish Economic Forum, European Financial Congress, and meetings with Sam Altman of OpenAI about European AI adoption.

When not lamenting the ills of modern architecture or debating French foreign correspondents, Urszula enjoys travelling to under-appreciated and misunderstood places and cooking while dancing to the radio.