Monika Krzencessa-Ropiak has a background in French studies and history. She graduated from University of Gdansk (Faculty of Philology and History) and later from Faculty of Humanities in Nantes, France. As a historian she worked in France between 1999-2000 – she participated in a Cercles Europe project at the Loire – Atlantique region. The project’s goal was to present culture and history of European countries to French high-school students. After she had got back to Poland, in 2001 she became professionally involved in the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdansk, where she worked in the Department of Documents’ Sharing and Archiving.

Her career flourished in 2009 when she joined the European Solidarity Centre as the Head of the Archive and Exhibition Department at the European Solidarity Centre (ECS) in Gdansk. She has been involved in the institution's organisation since its beginning and has played a very important part in shaping its archival resources. She has been overseeing the process of acquisition, organization and archiving of the items collected by the European Solidarity Centre, mainly material heritage objects and photographs.

Her engagement in presenting the history of democratic opposition is commonly appreciated by artists and activists from socialist times. She gets frequently invited to join local art competition juries or to discuss the history of Gdansk’s dissidence in the media. She is able to talk for hours about the precious collection of ECS.