Emily delivers violence prevention workshops on healthy relationships, body boundaries and consent to young people aged 7-12 in Argyll and Bute. It’s the only project of its kind in Scotland, and Emily is the only person who delivers these workshops. 

Originally training as a primary school teacher, Emily moved to Scotland in 2017 and began working for Argyll and Bute Rape Crisis the following year.  

She began her rape crisis career running sexual violence prevention workshops in secondary schools across Argyll, until she was given the opportunity to create a brand new a unique project for primary schools. PATCH (Preventing Abuse and Teaching Children Healthy relationships) is a primary school project for P4-P7 (7–12-year-olds), teaching children in a wide range of communities across Argyll and Bute about health relationships, body boundaries and consent from a sexual violence prevention perspective.  Emily’s combined knowledge of sexual violence, sexual violence prevention, and teaching has assisted her in creating age-appropriate workshop from scratch.

Within her role at Rape Crisis, Emily also works as a support practitioner in one-to-one sessions with survivors of sexual violence, helping them in their recovery. She was also a member of the Young Women’s Movement Advisory Panel for two years. 

Emily has an MSc in Applied Gender Studies and has recently completed a diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Described by her friends as ‘a canon of girl power’, feminism is at the very heart of all the work she does, shaping not only her professional life, but her personal life as well.