Our 2019 Theme is 'Faces of Equality'
Speakers
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Baroness Caroline Cox - Founder of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust
Caroline was created a Life Peer in 1982. Awards include Wilberforce Award; the International Mother Teresa Award and Honorary degrees from Universities in Poland, the UK, USA, Russia and Armenia. As CEO of HART [Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust] she regularly travels to conflict and post-conflict zones, including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, Armenia, Syria and Burma. |
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Harriet Lamb - CEO of International Alert
Harriet Lamb is CEO of International Alert, which seeks to build peace and address the root causes of conflict. She is currently the Eric Lane Visiting Fellow at Clare College & is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall. For 15 years, Harriet lead the Fairtrade movement, previously working on international development and with refugees. She published: ‘Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles’. |
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Leah Moss - Policy and Advocacy Officer at Plan International
Leah is a Policy and Advocacy Officer at Plan International, an international development and humanitarian organisation that advances children's rights and equality for girls. She works on analysis and knowledge management in support of Plan's advocacy for girls rights at the international level. Previously, Leah worked as a Programme Liaison Officer at Sentebale, an international development charity that provides psychosocial support to children and young people affected by HIV in Southern Africa. Leah led Sentebale's expansion into Malawi, where she developed a pilot programme in partnership with the Global Aids Interfaith Alliance to provide sexual health education and support to secondary school girls. Leah holds an MSc in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen. She also holds a BA in International History from the London School of Economics. |
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Amika George - Free Periods Founder
Amika George is a 19 year old student at Murray Edwards College, who, at the age of 17, started the Free Periods campaign from her bedroom to end period poverty in the UK. After reading about children missing school as they were unable to afford menstrual products, Amika started an online movement, and organized a protest in London. She has since received global recognition for her campaigning work, including receiving a Goalkeepers award from Bill & Melinda Gates, in conjunction with the United Nations, and was recently listed by TIME magazine as one of the 25 most influential teenagers in the world. Amika has launched the next phase of Free Periods, raising funds for a legal campaign to ensure every child has equal access to education. |
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Oscar Gillespie - Techfugees Cambridge Chapter Lead
Oscar is the chapter lead for Techfugees Cambridge, and works in maths education at the university while also serving as a city councillor. He has worked in the games industry and then educational technology for 20 years in total, and wants the Cambridge tech sector to be an active force in global humanitarian aid and sustainability. He relaxes by playing board games or guitar |
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Hibo Wardere - anti-FGM Campaigner, Activist and Author
Hibo Wardere is a Somalian anti-FGM campaigner, who educates people about the trauma of FGM by using her 'own trauma as an educational tool'. She has travelled around the world to advise global policymakers on combatting Female Genital Mutilation, and her 2016 memoir 'Cut: one woman's fight against FGM in Britain today' received critical acclaim for its frank portrayal of the realities of FGM. |
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Kitty Liao
Kitty is the founder and CEO of Ideabatic, an award-winning social enterprise that develops engineering solutions for the last-mile vaccine cold-chain issues. Its technology is known as SMILE – a smart last-mile vaccine cooling system. Kitty is also an Enterprise Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering. She has over ten years’ experience in low-temperature system R&D, superconducting cavity diagnostics for CERN accelerators and design for low-resource settings. Her interests include innovation, sustainable design and engineering for a better world. |
Cassi Henderson
Cassi Henderson is a Doctoral Researcher in the Cambridge Analytical Biotechnology group at the University of Cambridge, where her research interests are in the design and development of robust systems for point-of-care medical testing. She has a Master in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her PhD, she worked in medical device product development with a focus on human factors engineering.
Cassi Henderson is a Doctoral Researcher in the Cambridge Analytical Biotechnology group at the University of Cambridge, where her research interests are in the design and development of robust systems for point-of-care medical testing. She has a Master in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her PhD, she worked in medical device product development with a focus on human factors engineering.
