In 2010 Junczyk-Ziomecka was appointed Consul General of Poland, New York City, a position she held until 2014.

[1] On 19 January 2015, after completing the consular mission, she became the president of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation.

She then represented the University of Michigan in Poland, initiating and co-organizing, among others, international conferences on "Solidarity" and the Polish Round Table Agreement.

Junczyk-Ziomecka became the first laureate of this award,[10] followed by prominent American politicians: Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power (2013)[11] and Senator John McCain (2014).

[13] During Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka's tenure the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York was also a place of intensive training for Polish and American teachers, the aim of which was to promote knowledge about the person and heritage of Jan Karski.

[18] Her ex-husband is Mariusz Ziomecki (a Polish journalist and TV presenter), and she has two children: daughter Zuzanna and son Stanisław.