Erin Barnes Email and Phone Number

Award-winning producer, project manager and editor with over 20-years-experience delivering on large-scale social change programmes. Steadfast in supporting youth agency and pathways that enable them to thrive. In UK broadcast, with cultural orgs and schools leading on national education programmes, and now with Purposeful, an Africa-rooted feminist hub for girls’ activism, headquartered in Sierra Leone and working all over the world. Specialisms: Writing and editorial / Strategic partnerships and collaborations / Holding together the moving parts in complex projects & campaigns.Highlights:Producer on the 10th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights, the largest ever convening in Sierra Leone’s history, with over 900 participants from 41 countries & 50% young people. Editorial for Purposeful's weekly national radio broadcast, feminist life-skills programme and film series, and co-writing our Financial Literacy series with 15,000 adolescent girls and 600 mentors across Sierra Leone. Education consultancy with A New Direction – keeping close in touch with policy and classroom practice, collaborating with artists and practitioners to write and edit UK schools’ resources on under-represented subjects including Culture, Community & Activism, Colonialism and the Environment, Climate Justice, and Relationships & Sex Education.Co-producer with ArtsMediaPeople’s Gemma Clarke with Tate Britain and Steve McQueen, with school portraits of 76,000 children – exploring hope and opportunity, identity, race, class, and privilege. Meticulous project management, finance, and campaign comms for major public orgs plus interim Head of Tate Exchange, the social justice programme at Tate Modern. BBC senior manager then editor, leading BBC Blast, the youth creativity service and its BBC2 broadcast series. Learning always...Part time Masters at University of Sussex in International Development and Education with a focus on Gender and Identities, Feminist Theory, and Decolonising Development.