Home 2018 Nicola McLachlan Age: 29Location: Argyll & Bute / Edinburgh Nicola McLachlan is a feminist, and an architect with a passion for socially sustainable architecture. he lives of people and how we successfully cohabit and communicate in the built environment are really important to Nicola. She strives to ensure…
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Home 2018 Pinar Aksu Age: 26Location: Glasgow Pinar Aksu is a Development Officer at Maryhill Integration Network, a charity bringing refugee, migrant and local communities together through art, social and educational groups. Pinar runs Knit for Unity, a knitting group who donate ‘warm things for those who need them’, and…
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Home 2018 Rachel Arthur Location: Edinburgh Rachel is the founder of Boom, a triple standard business. She created boom saloon, a printed magazine, driven to democratise creativity for good and boom project, an ongoing series of community-led projects which use creativity to inspire and empower people in underprivileged areas. Both of these are…
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Home 2018 Rhiannon Spear Age: 28Location: GlasgowPronouns: she/her Rhiannon Spear is a SNP Councillor at the Glasgow City Council and a Law student. On top of that she has recently been appointed the chair of the TIE campaign, an organisation campaigning for LGBT-inclusive education in Scottish Schools. She is a…
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Home 2018 Ruth Finn Leiser Age: 26Location: Glasgow Ruth Finn Leiser (better known as Roobs) is a mental health activist, writer and founder of badass online store, GRLCLB. Roobs has appeared on BBC Horizon and The Debrief (RIP the to best online mag) and her GRLCLB store stocks a range…
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Home 2018 Samar Ziadat Age: 24Location: Glasgow Samar Ziadat is the co-founder of the online zine and art Festival Dardishi, which aims to promote Arab and North African womxn’s art. She is highly involved in Glasgow’s art community as a freelance curator, taking up roles her roles at Glasgow Zine…
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Home 2018 Sanya Jehangir Age: 17 Sanya is only 17 years old but over the last few years she has had the courage to talk about her thoughts and feelings of being a young Scottish Muslim girl. She took part in the Women of the World Festival Perth 2018 and other similar events to…
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Home 2018 Sarra Wild Location: Glasgow Sarra Wild is a co-founder of the Glaswegian night club and collective, OH141 as well as a DJ and promoter. She created OH141, a space where women, people of colour and members of the LGBTQ+ community could have fun and feel safe and accepted. Sarra’s work has been recognised by Dazed and The List’s Hot 100 where she has been nominated for her stellar activism toward creating safe spaces for queer communities, people of colour, and women.
Home 2018 Toni Twigg Age: 21Location: Glasgow Toni has volunteered with the Scottish Care Inspectorate since she was 18. She’s care experienced and, as a Young Inspection Volunteer, she visits children’s homes around Scotland, and speaks to the children living there. Toni currently lives in Glasgow with her two year…
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Home 2017 404 Ink – Heather McDaid and Laura Jones Age: 26, 27Location: Edinburgh Heather McDaid and Laura Jones are the founders of indie publisher 404 Ink, which they launched in 2016. Heather and Laura worked together on the Saltire Society’s virtual literary festival Scot Lit Fest, and during that…
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