Alex Storozynski is the president of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. He is the author of The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Era of Revolution, is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a former member of the New York Daily News editorial board, founding editor of amNewYork and former city editor of the New York Sun. Among his awards for journalism are the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Deadline Club Award, the Silurian Award, twice and the Associated Press editorial award four times, for editorial writing. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, was a post-graduate fellow at the University of Warsaw, 1985-87 interviewing Solidarity leaders for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe, and has taught at Charles University in Prague. A distinguished leader of the Polish American community, he has served as chairman of the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, the largest ethnic credit union in the United States. His many honors include the Polish-American World’s 2005 “Man of the Year” award, the Gold Cross of Service from the President of Poland in 2006, and a distinguished achievement award from the American Center of Polish Culture in Washington, DC in 2007.