While in school, she worked in the Association of Polish Democratic Youth, where she met her future husband, Stanislaw Leopold.

[7] Leopold was a member of the research staff for the Center of Social and Cultural Problems of Contemporary Africa, at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Rather than most of the other scholars who were in her field, (linguists or anthropologists), she was a specialist in the history of literature and a literary critic.

[8] She specialized in the study of English writing, with a focus of West Africa (specifically Nigeria).

[9] Her first critical essays were focused on Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, and Wole Soyinka.

[citation needed] Written in Warsaw in 1973, this text included a detailed survey that illustrated the many inter-relations between African and European literatures.

In 1943, Leopold was a cyclist and a departure liaison to the whole country in the 6th division of the AK (Information and Propaganda Bureau of Domestic Distribution).

[17] Also, during the Warsaw Uprising, she fought and served as a liaison officer of the 6th division of the Home Army.

Then, in 1976 she wrote a letter to the Parliament on the appointment of a commission to clarify the incidents of Radom and Ursus, as well as working with the Workers Defence Committee.