Home 2016 Gemma Lumsdaine Age: 18Location: Stirling / Dundee Gemma plays wheelchair basketball for Scotland’s National League Club, the Lothian Phoenix, and is an all-star for the Women’s League Club, the Angels of the North. She’s captained the Under 19s team for Scotland at the Lord Taverner’s National Junior Championships,…
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Home 2016 Gill Hatcher Age: 28Location: North Lanarkshire Gill is an artist and the founder of a comic collection called Team Girl Comic, a project that brings together women cartoonists in Glasgow to publish their work in an anthology. Gill has published on her own too, most notably The Beginners…
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Home 2016 Girls Against Age: 15-18Location: Glasgow Motivated by personal experience, Hannah Camilleri, Anni Cameron, Anna Cowan, Ava Cadenhead and Bea Bennister, all between the ages of 15 and 18, used social media to launch a movement against sexual harassment at gigs that has grown to nearly 14,000 supporters and…
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Home 2016 Hannah Howland Age: 13Location: Falkirk Hannah was a finalist on Sky’s Got to Dance back in 2012. Now, Hannah is the recipient of the Andrew Lloyd Webber scholarship and is the only Scottish pupil at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. She played Veruca Salt in the Theatre…
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Home 2016 Katie Burke Age: 19Location: Fife / Argyll & Bute Katie is the Scottish Youth Parliament Chair and was involved with the campaign to give 16 and 17 year-olds the right to vote in Scotland. As a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament, she was the winner of both…
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Home 2016 Lauren Currie Age: 29Location: Glasgow At 23, Lauren co-founded Snook, now a leading service design agency based in Glasgow and London. It’s a group of designers, researchers, and strategists who use design to public services better , making all of those everyday services we all use (banking, tax…
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Home 2016 Lauren Mayberry Age: 28Location: Dumfries and Galloway Lauren is the lead singer of CHVRCHES and uses her platform to support women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. She wrote an op ed in The Guardian after Chvrches launched their first album addressing sexism and misogyny in the music industry. Her incredibly…
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Home 2016 Megan Scott Age: 25Location: Stirling Megan works for Callander Youth Project Trust and was named this year’s YouthLink Full-Time Youth Worker of the Year. Megan has been with the CYP for quite a while: first as a volunteer, then she started working as a sessional worker in 2011,…
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Home 2016 Mhairi Black Age: 21Location: Glasgow SNP MP Mhairi caused an immediate sensation during the 2015 general election when she became the youngest Member of Parliament to be elected in centuries. Her maiden speech in the House of Commons went viral on social media. She loves ‘dad music’ (proper…
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Home 2016 Michelle Blair Age: 21Location: North Lanarkshire It was at the Reeltime Music organisation in Motherwell that Michelle Blair got her musical career started. 21 year-old Michelle first got involved with Reeltime in 2010 through a workplace experience placement; she loved it so much that she kept going back,…
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