Joelle Taylor is an author of 4 collections of poetry who has won various awards such as 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. Joelle has performed internationally and uses their personal experiences to tell stories.

Athian Akec is a 21-year-old activist, former youth MP, an educator and a published writer. His multidimensional work ranges from speeches to essays to guest lectures. Athian focuses on providing young people with perspective in order to navigate the future. Over the past few years, he has produced the “Beyond Black history month” series with i-D magazine, spoken in the House of Commons and been published by Penguin with an essay on the political potential of Black culture.

Kwajo Tweneboa is a 24-year-old social issues campaigner from south London, who uses social media to give a voice to a variety of issues. Most notably, he has challenged authority in fighting the housing crisis, experiencing eviction at only 12 years old and fighting the landlords who moved his father into an insect-infected property. With extreme passion, Kwajo employs short and plain language to effectively criticise Britain on its social housing.

Christina Adane is a social activist responsible for the successful campaign to ensure that disadvantaged children, eligible for free school meals, were able to access food during summer holidays and the pandemic lockdowns. She is a recipient of the Diana Legacy Award, the Third Sector Award, and has been named in Glamour’s “24 under 24”. She is interested in a wide range of social justice issues and in helping other young people to have their voices heard.

Noga Levy-Rapoport (they/he/she) is a student, climate justice activist, volunteer, and organiser with the UK Student Climate Network. They have organised several climate strikes in the UK, as part of the global “YouthStrike4Climate Campaign” under Fridays For Future, as well as balancing a number of other climate-related projects. Over the past few years, they have been active in creating campaigns for educational reform in the UK, the Green New Deal, and multiple youth empowerment initiatives.

Inua Ellams, MBE is a poet, graphic artist, and performer.  He has published 5 poetry collections, and written 5 renowned plays, including “The Barbershop Chronicles”, and “Three Sisters and The Half-God of Rainfall”. In 2023, he received an MBE for services to the Arts and an Honorary Doctorate for the University of the Arts.

Anita Okunde is a university student at the University of Oxford studying PPE. She is also an award-winning activist and public speaker focusing on issues specifically surrounding the intersection between climate justice and feminism. Anita’s work focuses on putting those disproportionately affected by the crisis we face, at the forefront of the climate movement.

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism project, a website that catalogues incidents of sexism through anonymous entries. The website holds hundreds of thousands of submissions from contributors across the world. She has also wrote her book, Everyday Sexism, detailing experiences noted through the project’s platform. Bates has wrote five other books, but most recently, Bates released the book, Men Who Hate Women in 2020, debunking extreme misogyny and incel culture, as well as the book Fix the System, Not the Women in 2022, which bridges connections between incidents of sexism.

Kat. François has won the first televised poetry slam in the UK, and won the World Slam Championship the year after. Kat. François has since worked with young people as a youth worker, PHSE Facilitator, also teaching dance, drama, creative writing, poetry and performance skills and school slams. She is an established playwright and director of youth theatre, devising and directing plays for theatres including Theatre Royal Stratford East, Roundhouse Camden, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. She has also written and performed two internationally staged solo plays and two comedy shows. 

Adam Elliott-Cooper is the author of Black Resistance to British Policing and is a research associate in sociology at the University of Greenwich. He sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organisation challenging state racisms and racial violence.

Azekel (they/them) is a Black, queer and non-binary activist. They create community spaces that foster an environment of safety and acceptance for those with intersecting marginalised identities. Among those Azekel works with are the Black trans community, the QTIPOC (Queer, Trans and Intersex People of Colour) community and Black women.

Deja Foxx is a 20 year old leading thought at the intersection of social justice and social media. She is the founder of GenZ Girl Gang, a student at Columbia University, and a Digital Creator with Ford Models who got her start advocating for reproductive justice after experiencing homelessness in her teenage years. At just 19, she worked for Kamala Harris as the Influencer and Surrogate Strategist and became one of the youngest presidential campaign staffers in modern history.

Talia is a young woman and survivor of relationship abuse she experienced at the age of 15 years old. Now the Founder and Director of Youth Realities, a youth-led organisation working from Grahame Park Estate and addressing the issue that almost destroyed her adolescence. Talia now works with young people to provide emotional support and raise awareness to end the cycle of youth domestic abuse.

After one of Temi's childhood friends was murdered, Temi formed the 4FRONTProject a youth-led social enterprise to empower young people and communities to live free from violence.  At just 23-years-old, she has received a Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Award and David Cameron's Points of Light Award, in addition to being named IARS Peacemeaker of the Year, and listed in Forbes Top 30-Under 30.