Rajkowski was born in 1988 in theGelderland cityNijmegen to aPolish father, who was a teacher and an entrepreneur, and a mother, who was half Dutch and half Polish and worked as a manager for the province ofGelderland.[4][5][6] She has a younger sister and grew up in the city Arnhem, where she attended the high school Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem.[4][7] Rajkowski moved to Utrecht to study economics at university and was a member of the student association Unitas. She switched topublic administration atLeiden University after a year, and she became a member of theYouth Organisation Freedom and Democracy (JOVD), the VVD's independent youth division.[4][8]
Rajkowski was elected to the Utrecht municipal council in the2014 municipal elections, appearing fifth on the VVD'sparty list.[9] She became her party's spokesperson for safety in the council.[10] At the time, she had also been working for the government of the municipality of Utrecht since 2013.[8] Thereafter, she filled positions related to education at Orion Duurzaam Leren and eFcous before moving in 2016 to Valtech, where she would later serve as head of learning and development.[4][8][11] As a councilor, Rajkowski criticized the decision by SPO, which is responsible for Utrecht's public primary schools, to stop usingZwarte Piet in itsSinterklaas celebrations, saying parents had not been properly consulted.[12] Besides, she advocated closing Utrecht'sstreet prostitution zone in favor ofwindow prostitution.[13]
She was placed second on the party list in the2018 municipal election in Utrecht and was re-elected to the council.[14] She became the VVD's vice caucus leader in the council, while safety, jobs, and income were among her specializations.[15] When the commemoration of the2019 Utrecht tram shooting was canceled in 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, Rajkowski called on Utrecht's citizens to observe one minute of silence and to light a candle.[16]
She ran for member of parliament in the2021 general election as the VVD's thirteenth candidate and was elected with 3,246preference votes.[17] She was installed as House member on 31 March and became the first person on that body of Polish descent.[18] Rajkowski had already left Utrecht's municipal council in February, and she also left Valtech.[2] In the House, she was the VVD's spokesperson fordigitization, governmentIT,telecommunications, theGeneral Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), andcybersecurity.[19] She called for Russian hackers to be put on the Europeansanction list during the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[20] Rajkowski also proposed a ban ondeepfake technology out of concern for its usage forrevenge porn and political hoaxes. She raised the possibility of an exception for businesses using the technology for legitimate usages.[21] Amotion by Rajkowski requesting the cabinet to draft such a bill passed the House of Representatives in November 2022.[22]
Rajkowski wasre-elected in November 2023, but she temporarily left the House for her maternity leave on 8 December – days after the swearing in of new members. Her leave ended on 29 March 2024.[23] She became the VVD's spokesperson on digitization, cybersecurity, AIVD, and childcare until her portfolio was changed to asylum, migration, AIVD, and racism when theSchoof cabinet was sworn in.[24]
Rajkowski lives in the city ofUtrecht, and she got married in 2022.[5][25] In early 2023, she was a contestant of theKRO-NCRV quiz showDe slimste mens, surviving four episodes. The first of those was seen by over 2.5 million people.[26][27]
^abcdRajkowski, Queeny (23 May 2016)."Ik krijg de kriebels van het woord kwetsbaar" [I get the chills when I hear the word vulnerable].AD (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Hans van de Ham. Retrieved29 March 2021.
^Maes, John (1 December 2015). "Nog meer ruzie over Zwarte Piet" [Even more fighting aboutZwarte Piet].De Telegraaf (in Dutch). p. 18.
^Van Renselaar, Michiel (9 May 2018). "Nieuw Zandpad weer verder weg" [Nieuw Zandpad again unlikelier].De Telegraaf (in Dutch). p. 12.
^Meerding, Tess (12 December 2017)."Kandidaten Utrechtse VVD" [Candidates of the Utrecht VVD].De UtrechtseVVD (Press release) (in Dutch). Retrieved30 March 2021.
^Van Dijk, Marjolein (9 April 2018)."Nieuwe portefeuilleverdeling fractie bekend" [New division portfolio caucus known].De Utrechtse VVD (Press release) (in Dutch). Retrieved1 April 2021.
^"Kiesraad benoemt vier Tweede Kamerleden" [Electoral Council appoints four members of parliament].Electoral Council (Press release) (in Dutch). 11 December 2023. Retrieved13 April 2024.
