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Support the implementation of the Law and Policy programme at ARTICLE 19, including conducting high-quality research and policy analysis on various aspects of freedom of expression and digital rights.Key responsibilities included: -Drafting and editing outputs to different audiences, including submissions to UN procedures, press releases and blogs.-Design of a legal case docket, a systematised database of ARTICLE 19’s legal interventions to facilitate the exchange of best practice on litigation.-Financial and narrative reporting for the Law and Policy programme, including liaising with ARTICLE 19’s Finance, Projects and MEL teams.

Equipped and empowered organisations across the children’s sector and local government to deliver an effective and integrated influencing strategy in advance of the Spending Review. Significant achievements include:-Embedding a creative approach to alliance-building, drafting an ambitious Terms of Reference (ToR) which defined the terms through which the alliance conducted joint policymaking, lobbying, media work and campaigning. -Oversaw a major campaigning push, including the release of the alliance's children's services spend and trends report, three supporter E-actions targeting all English MPs, and a parliamentary drop-in attended by 62 parliamentarians. -Sustained and built relationships across the children's sector and local government, increasing the core membership of the alliance from three to five charities, and building relationships with three local children's services departments.

London

Worked alongside the Steering Group, Policy, Parliamentary and Campaigns groups to deliver two effective and long-term projects: the Campaign Champions and the Young Ambassadors projects, both of which leveraged the power of young people as change-makers.Proudest achievements include: - Equipping and empowering twenty-four Campaign Champions across the UK with the advocacy skill and knowledge to achieve tangible policy change, including in 2018, the UK's endorsement of the Safe Schools Declaration. - Delivering a programme of high-impact advocacy activities, and maintained effective dialogue with funders and partners to facilitate the expansion of the Young Ambassadors project from a two-week advocacy mission in 2017 to a year-long project with activities in both the UK and Zambia in 2018.

Contributed to research advising local anti-fracking groups in the UK on the human rights implications of extreme energy extraction processes, such as fracking.

Provided holistic casework and advocacy support to migrant and refugee families facing destitution in London. This included intensive one to one casework support, referrals to appropriate services, group work and social activities.

London, United Kingdom

Oversaw the community fundraising programme, and led partnerships with major UK academics, students' unions, trade unions, community and faith groups. Proudest achievements include, building a network of student and community Anti-Slavery groups who could be mobilised in key advocacy moments, and co-ordinating a letter of solidarity representing over 57,000 students from major UK universities addressing the European Parliament on the issue of forced labour in Uzbekistan.

London, United Kingdom

Led semi-structured interviews with activists from the anti-apartheid movement, contributing to the creation of a hitherto absent archive of oral history documenting the movement.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Understanding And Securing Human Rights, Distinction And Winner Of The Albie Sachs Award For Best Dissertation

-Awarded the Coffin Fund for Promising Students Studentship worth £12,500, 2017-19. -Awarded the Albie Sachs Award for the best.

Bachelor’S Degree, History, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: President of the UCLU Amnesty International Society, 2013-2015.My dissertation thesis: ‘Feminism.