Girls' Rights Specialist, Consultant & Mentor
Work History
Experience & Expertise
2022 - Present
Founder, The Joyful Activists
We curate holistic virtual wellbeing workshops to care for the emotional and physical wellbeing of activists, charity people and humanitarians. We design and deliver bespoke workshops for charities and NGOs on mental health, joy and wellbeing at work.
2021 - 2024
Partnerships Officer, Plan International UK
Convening the Girls' Rights Collective UK, a network of organisations, academics and activists working in gender equality across the girls’ sector in the UK.
2022, 2023
Delegate, UN Women UK
Representing UN Women UK as a delegate at the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
2021 - Present
Consultant, Bloss and Bndle
Consultant offering 1:1 support to parents, families and young people on pregnancy, parenting, challenging behaviour, understanding trauma and dealing with loss and bereavement.
2021Â - 2023
Consultant, Doulas Without Borders
Providing strategic and operational guidance to grow Doulas Without Borders as a national CIC, including volunteer and referrals management, safeguarding and training. Doulas Without Borders offers accessible, grassroots services to women and childbearing people experiencing multiple disadvantage and financial hardship during pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
2021 - Present
Little Bean Doula
Pregnancy, birth and postnatal doula for private clients across London, alongside volunteering as a doula with Doulas Without Borders, supporting women and birthing people in challenging circumstances.
2020Â -Â 2021
Consultant, SHE Zimbabwe
Working with a small team in the UK and Zimbabwe to found an educational initiative working in two areas of rural Zimbabwe to remove the barriers facing girls when accessing education.
2020 -Â 2021
Thrive Lead, Queen's College London
Creating and leading pastoral initiatives for pupils aged 11-18, including Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, Peer Mentoring and LGBTQ+ society. Designing and teaching wellbeing lessons on Resilience.
2016Â -Â 2020
Lead Practitioner, Mentoring Plus
Commission Lead for an Early Help service supporting children aged 7-21 facing significant challenges, training adult volunteers as mentors, designing and leading inspiring youth activity programmes, line management of practitioners and youth workers.
2016-2017
Young Advocates Coordinator, Southside Family Project
Leading a youth programme for young people aged 13-18 who had been affected by domestic violence and abuse.
2015
Intern, Daraja Academy Kenya
Daraja Academy is a secondary school in rural Kenya offering education to girls who would not be otherwise able to complete their education. I lived there for six months offering pastoral and wellbeing initiatives to pupils.
2013 - 2015
Senior Assistant Programme Manager, The Challenge
Preparing and delivering National Citizen Service (NCS) residential youth programmes for 15-17 year olds, grounded in outdoor education, social actions projects and campaigning.
2011 -Â 2012
Curriculum Lead, Crackerjack Training
Curriculum lead, assessor and tutor for Apprenticeships in Early Years and Playwork Awards, Certificates and Diplomas, teaching both learners aged 16-18 and adults.