Home 2018 Amanda Stanley Age: 22Location: GlasgowPronouns: she/her Amanda produces multiple podcasts as well as hosting a show with her good friend Kate Bailey. Fermentations explores the intersections of gastronomy and gender, how cool is that?! Her main job is working with our favourite pals at Engender Scotland. There she helps…
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Home 2018 Brenna Jessie Location: EdinburghPronouns: she/her Brenna Jessie is a Scottish feminist activist campaigning and working on issues to do with gender, justice and media. She was once called a ‘horrible elite’ by Rupert Murdoch, and as Brenna notes, ‘more accurately “pancake tits hippy dippy lesbian” by an anonymous…
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Home 2018 Catherine Wilson Age: 22Location: EdinburghPronouns: she/her Catherine Wilson is a poet and writer. Despite only arriving in the poetry and spoken world industry a short four years ago, Catherine’s work has already been featured by the British National Gallery and broadcast by the BBC.Career-wise, Catherine has worked on…
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Home 2018 Claire Leitch Age: 27 Location: East AyrshirePronouns: she/her Claire is a councillor of a vast rural area of East Ayrshire called Ballochmyle. Shortly after being elected, she quickly made it to the Depute Provost of East Ayrshire. At 27, she is not only one of the youngest councillors…
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Home 2018 Dionne McFarlane Age: 21Location: EdinburghPronouns: she/her Dionne began a successful and growing campaign for awareness of endometriosis, after being diagnosed with the condition. She aims to improve the care and treatment of women with endometriosis, and has approached several clinicians about how women with endometriosis are managed when…
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Home 2018 Eleanor Gall Age: 26Location: Glasgow Eleanor has been writing since she was a young child although she admits that her early work consisted of rambling and embarrassing diary entries that she has since stashed away in boxes in cupboards. Growing up in Aberdeen and later moving to Glasgow to…
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Home 2018 Elena Soper Age: 27Location: West LothianPronouns: she/her Elena started volunteering for Amnesty International when she was 14 and hasn’t stopped since. After high school, she continued volunteering for Amnesty while she was at university and went on to become a school speaker after graduating – delivering talks on violence…
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Home 2018 Emma McGeough Location: GlasgowPronouns: she/her Emma is the co-founder of PhD Women Scot. PhDs still tend to be viewed as a male-dominated practice. So, when Emma McGeough co-founded the PhD Women Scot community she was only expecting a handful of members.At time of writing, the PhD Women’s Group…
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Home 2018 Eve Livingston Location: Glasgow Eve is a freelance journalist working for different publications (The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, The Pool…) which gives her the freedom to cover stories that she is really interested in. She specialises in social affairs and inequalities and focuses a little bit in gender even though she doesn’t like to box herself in as just a feminist journalist. She studied sociology and socio-anthropology at Edinburgh University, and was interested in media and journalist so did radio, but didn’t see it…
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Home 2018 Hannah Brisbane Location: Glasgow Hannah is the lead volunteer for voice for Girlguiding Scotland, volunteering to help young girls to find their voice. She started as an advocate with the Girlguiding UK youth panel back in 2014, being a spoke person for the charity – speaking on their…
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