Isla is a fourth year student of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, a Girlguiding leader, an NUS Scotland Women Campaign’s Committee Member, and Year of the Young People 2018 Ambassador.

Isla began volunteering with Girlguiding when she was 16, which she says has influenced her activism and feminism ever since. She was on Girlguiding’s advocate panel from 2013 to 2015, through which she had the opportunity to meet Malala Yousefi, and to speak at the Labour Party conference in 2015.

As a Young Scot 5 Rights Commissioner, Isla has raised awareness about young people’s rights online and formed part of a commission which presented its final report to the Scottish Government in May this year.

She is also on the Disabled Students Committee at University, and has been working on campaigns around hidden illness and invisible disabilities. These are subjects on which Isla blogs regularly, along with mental health and the associated stigma.

Isla has blogged for feminist platforms SPARK Movement, Powered by Girl and the Young Women’s Movement, she contributes to The National Student, and she has even been published in The Scotsman on women’s rights.

She is also a strong advocate of LGBT+ rights, having volunteered for Belfast Pride this summer as part of her undergraduate dissertation on Pride and LGBT+ spaces in Belfast.