Home 2016 Natasha Kerr Age: 19Location: East Ayrshire Natasha completed a work placement in Leisure Development before being invited to volunteer with the organisation. She is completing the HND Sports Coaching and Development programme at Ayrshire College and volunteers 7 days a week. Not only has volunteering changed the lives…
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Home 2016 Naziyah Mahmood Age: 20sLocation: Glasgow With a background in Aerospace Engineering and Astrophysics, Naziyah’s CV reads like that of a science fiction heroine: she’s worked as a mission analyst on European Space Agency missions, including ESMO and Moonbase-X, contributed to the Particle Physics Experimental Project on ATLAS Detector…
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Home 2016 Rebecca Pick Age: 22Location: Glasgow In 2014, Rebecca combined her knowledge from her Marketing and Enterprise degree at the University of Strathclyde with her internship at a security company to develop a personal safety product: the Personal Guardian. The Personal Guardian can attach to a bra strap, belt,…
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Home 2016 Rohanna Irvine Age: 24Location: Argyll and Bute / Glasgow Rohanna didn’t consider herself very good at school, but she’s come a long way since moving from Tighnabruaich to Glasgow at 17. Working with Active East, a programme that works to create a legacy from the 2014 Commonwealth Games,…
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Home 2016 Roza Salih Location: Glasgow Roza was one of the Glasgow Girls who capaigned in high school for improvements to the UK Border Agency’s treatment of people seeking asylum, particularly children. In 2013 she graduated with honours in law and politics from University of Strathclyde, where she was also…
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Home 2016 Sharon Rooney Age: 27Location: Glasgow Sharon is possibly best known as the protagonist Rae Earl in the TV series My Mad Fat Diary. She’s previously starred in the hilarious sitcom Mountain Goats as Jules, has appeared in Stag, a mini-series about a stag do, and in Peter Mullan’s…
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Home 2016 Suki Sangha Age: 29Location: Glasgow Suki is a founding member of RISE: Scotland’s Left Alliance, a new political party in Scotland. She ran as a candidate in the recent Holyrood elections. She is on Unite’s Scottish Executive Committee and sat on the STUC General Council in 2014-15. She…
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Home 2016 Timea Tabori Age: 25Location: Dundee Software engineering graduate from Abertay University Timea is an engineer programmer at Rockstar North pursuing her childhood dream job: video game development. Timea is passionate about bringing more women into the field. She’s a mentor with Coderdojo, which runs coding events for kids,…
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Home 2016 Zara Kitson Age: 30 Location: Stirling In just the last five years Zara has developed and delivered a branch of Tree of Knowledge focused on youth and community, was a programme manager for Columba 1400, was Vice Chair for Fallin Community Enterprises, was a ‘Thinking Together’ Assembly Co-Ordinator…
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