Krystyna Stanisława Tomaszyk QSM (née Skwarko; 7 May 1932 – 13 June 2020) was a Polish-New Zealand writer and social activist.

She worked, among others with the Department of Maori Affairs, Child Welfare in Rotorua,[2] the Intellectually Disabled Organization, as a social affairs adviser to the Hamilton City Council, the Regional Disciplinary Committee of Physicians.

She was a teacher, a volunteer in Khalighat - at the Death House of Mother Teresa in Calcutta, a writer, translator, editor and publisher of the monthly "Contact".

[3] As part of the Polish community activity, Tomaszyk promoted the history of children from Pahiatua.

[7] She was also the recipient of a Waikato Woman of the Year title from the Plunket Society in Hamilton.