Home 2017 Alice Thompson Age: 27Location: Edinburgh / The Highlands At 21, Alice co-founded Social Bite, a social business sandwich shop chain in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, employing and feeding the homeless community. A quarter of their 100+ staff comes from backgrounds of homelessness. They offer a full support programme for their staff, and also feed the homeless through pay it forward service.…
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Home 2017 Beldina Odenyo Age: 27Location: Glasgow Beldina Odenyo (1990-2021) was an amazing singer songwriter based in Glasgow. Originally from Kisumu, Kenya she moved to a small village near Dumfriesshire as a young girl, and this influence reflected heavily in her work. Having previously performed under the name Genesee, she…
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Home 2017 Briana Pegado Age: 25Location: Edinburgh Briana came to Scotland in 2010 to study International Development at The University of Edinburgh. She soon realised however, that she was most passionate about the environment, sustainability, social justice and ethics and so changed her degree to Sustainable Development. Heavily involved in…
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Home 2017 Christina MacKaill Age: 26Location: Dundee / Edinburgh Christina is currently working in A&E in Dundee after studying biomedical science in Aberdeen and then Medicine in Glasgow, and she hopes to follow the Flight Surgeon path to save lives during space missions Christina founded Scotland’s first Space Medicine Society…
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Home 2017 Jordan Baird Age: 26Location: Edinburgh Catriona is Green Arts Project Manager at Creative Carbon Scotland, Environmental Officer for Festivals Edinburgh, and board member for 2050 Climate Group. She was, by her own account, “involved in everything” from a young age. At Portobello High School she was part of…
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Home 2017 Ciara Maguire Age: 24Location: Glasgow Ciara Maguire is a lesbian feminist activist and the chair of Free Pride. In 2015, when Glasgow Pride announced that they would be charging people for tickets to Glasgow’s main Pride event, Ciara and others decided to create their own space for everyone, Free Pride. Their…
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Home 2017 Eilidh Earle-Mitchell Age: 21Location: Aberdeen / The Highlands Eilidh is the Studio Manager at Aberdeen’s digital fabrication studio – MAKE. She was diagnosed with scoliosis aged 6 and later, at university, was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis that affects her spine and joints. Eilidh studied…
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Home 2017 Emeli Sandé Age: 30Location: Aberdeenshire Singer-songwriter Emeli’s debut album “Our Version of Events” broke a chart record set by the Beatles and was UK’s highest selling album of 2012. She was born in Sunderland to a Zambian father and English mother, but the family moved to Alford in…
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Home 2017 Grace Warnock Age: 12Location: East Lothian ??? Grace Warnock is an absolute powerhouse – she has designed and run a national campaign that has been endorsed up by the Scottish Parliament and a number of businesses, from Edinburgh Airport to Filmhouse cinema and Hibernian FC’s Easter Road Stadium;…
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Home 2017 Hannah Pearson Age: 28Location: Edinburgh Hannah is currently Policy Coordinator at the Equality Network; volunteers for the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion; is on the Abortion Rights Scotland Committee; and is a member of YouAct: European Youth Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Following her…
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