Feminism in London is organised by a committee of women volunteers, who are listed here. There are, however, many others who are helping in a variety of ways, such as by organising fund raising events, developing the registration site, organising workshops and sharing fantastic ideas.
Alice Doyne
Alice Doyne joined the committee when she attended her first London Feminist Network meeting last winter when we put out a call for new volunteers.
Alice organised the stalls and is a sterling minute taker.
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Alice Hunt
Alice Hunt became involved with fundraising for Feminism in London after attending the conference in 2009.
She is currently studying for a Masters in Gender, Development and Globalisation and likes to knit and cook (badly) in her spare time.
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Alice Tallents
Alice Tallents started conservation volunteering when she was 16, but has been a feminist for much longer. After spending a number of years in Japan, she now works as a energy researcher for a Japanese organisation. Alice is married to a fellow language geek and is mildy obsessive about translation, sustainability and equality issues. Alice first found out about LFN through the book group and, excited to discover such a vibrant feminist community in London, decided she wanted to do more to support the group. She coordinated the volunteers for last year’s conference, and is involved in logistics for FiL10.
Amy Waters
Amy Waters is in charge of promoting our fund raising events and the book and zine stall that we are planning for the day.
Anna Fisher
Anna Fisher sustained herself through the tough years of single motherhood by working her way through the shelf of feminist books in Tooting Public Library. Now her daughter has grown up, she is enjoying her new freedom and the perspective of those years and helps to bring feminism to other women by running the London Feminist Network book group and helping to organise Feminism in London. Anna has a full time day job in the IT industry. This year Anna is the chair of the committee.
Anna Gomberg
Anna Gomberg lives in Brixton and works as a science teacher at a school in Croydon, She has been involved with the London Feminist Network since summer 2009 when she read “The Women’s Room” by Marilyn French which inspired her to join in with feminist activism. After attending Feminism in London 2009 she joined the committee for the 2010 conference. She is co-ordinating the 8 – 11 year old and 12 – 18 year old workshops as well as helping manage the logistics of the day.
Caroline Varin
Better later than never! Caroline joined the committee in the last months of the organisation using her PR and Marketing skills for last minutes tasks.
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Chitra Nagarajan
Chitra Nagarajan is a lifelong activist for gender equality, working to promote and protect the human rights of women in China, the United Kingdom, the United States and countries in West Africa. She currently works in the West Africa programme of International Alert. In her free time she engages in feminist activism in the UK through setting up the black feminist network and re-starting the consciousness raising movement.
Chitra is the co-deputy chair of the committee and is organising the opening and closing sessions, the “Reports from the global women’s movement” panel and the “A space to recover” and ”Exploring our internalised prejudice” workshops. She is also joint press officer (with Jess McCabe) and takes a lead on promoting the conference.
Helen Lipscomb
Helen Lipscomb is the Feminism in London treasurer.
Ilse Mogensen
Ilse Mogensen is part of the fundraising sub-group.
Jess McCabe
Jess McCabe is the editor of the F-Word. As well as helping with various practical tasks, like organising the venue for the evening event, Jess McCabe is joint press officer (with Chitra Nagarajan) and organised the filming and live video streaming of the programme in the main hall.
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Johanna Heden
Johanna joined the committee soon after the 2009 conference. She helped with various IT and admin tasks and has now returned to Sweden where she is about to give birth to her first child. We are hoping that she will return to London in October to attend the conference and introduce her new baby to us all.
Jordy Bunting
Jordy Bunting is an architectural assistant and has always been a feminist by nature, but has only got involved in activism in the past few months and is trying to make up for lost time. Jordy finds that feminist activity and publications help her to make sense of her past experiences, describing them so accurately from a woman’s perspective in a way that is unheard of in the mainstream media. She joined the committee just recently and helps in all sorts of practical ways, like selling merchandise during fundraising events.
Kate Rowley
Kate Rowley works for an international development charity and has always had a strong interest in gender equality. Since moving to London last year she has enjoyed being part of the London feminist movement, stewarding for Reclaim the Night and walking on fire for the Fawcett Society! She was really inspired by Feminism in London 2009 and was keen to get involved with planning for this years event.
LILI Kathleen Bright
Kathleen Bright, aka lili, is a full-time activist. She co-started Feminists of Hackney and is really keen to meet other feminists in East London. She’s providing technical advice and support for the new Feminism in London website (going live after the conference in October) and creating a new website for the London Feminist Network. She writes for Daily Feminist Action and organises feminist and vegan events across London. More at Kathleen Bright (dotcom).
Lisa-Marie Taylor
Lisa-Marie Taylor is the co-deputy chair of the committee. When we realised that this year we would need a bigger venue, she took on the task of searching for one that would fit all our criteria and still be affordable. She brings a wealth of organisational experience from her day job and helped set up and organise the bigger committee that we have this year. She has organised the fabulous raffle prizes and helps with logistics.
Sarah Briggs
Sarah’s always had nagging suspicion that women are still getting a bit of a raw deal so figured getting involved with FiL would be a great opportunity to explore how 21st century feminism can help address inequality. Sarah likes tea, living in Kilburn, running, records, working as a fundraiser and eating cake. Sarah is the fund raising coordinator.
Sarah Illingworth
Sarah Illingworth grew up on a farm in a part of rural australia untouched by the feminist movement, but was lucky enough to have been brought up in a matriarchal household where it was always believed that “girls could do whatever boys could do”; not a belief shared by many of their neighbours. After hearing Finn Mackay speak at a debate in Oxford, she was inspired to actually participate. She’s currently taking a sabbatical from production design to train to be a boxer and hopes to be able to compete in a year’s time. Sarah is helping out by researching listings, keeping a list of members of the London Feminist Network who can offer accommodation to women coming from other parts of the country and abroad, and is helping to organise a fund raising event in the boxing gym where she trains.
Shannon Harvey
Shannon Harvey has been a human rights and peace activist for many years, but has found her home as a feminist in the past couple of years. She works for a women’s organisation in London, coordinating a programme doing research and training around the experiences of survivors of domestic and sexual violence in drug and alcohol agencies. Being a feminist campaigner and working towards an equal world free of violence against women is what keeps her sane. Shannon has been responsible for negotiating the screening of Made in Dagenham at the Barbican on 29 September and for organising the post-film discussion. She has also liaised with the NUS Women’s Officer to get our flyers sent out to all the university women’s officers and has helped out in numerous other ways.
Sue Coulthard
Sue Coulthard provides invaluable advice on our marketing strategy.
Yula Burin
Yula Burin researched feminist slogans for badges and other merchandising. We couldn’t manage without her wisdom and centred presence. She keeps us talking when things get heated and sometimes reads a poem at the end of our meetings.