In Conversation: Hear what our Being the Story Alumni are up to скачать в хорошем качестве

In Conversation: Hear what our Being the Story Alumni are up to

Bryony Albery worked for Wycombe Homeless Connection helping people avoid homelessness by fighting evictions, engaging vulnerable people with the legal system around them. Since taking part in Being the Story she has made a massive change and is now training to be a social justice lawyer. She performs poetry at slam events about her experiences in frontline support work, putting the spotlight on social issues that she feels need to be tackled that her clients might face, and winning the Dreading Poetry Slam in 2017. Onjali Q. Raúf Founder and CEO, Making Herstory was a self-declared feminist from the age of seven, Onjali specialised in Women’s Studies at Oxford University before working in a number of human rights charities. In 2011 her aunt was murdered by the husband she had been trying to escape from for over five years, highlighting the systematic failures around the constant abuse and murders of women in the United Kingdom. Determined to do something in memory of her aunt, Onjali set up Making Herstory. Today Making Herstory has a network of active supporters across the UK. Working with agencies large and small, it has supported women’s shelters and outreach projects. Making Herstory and was featured in The Independent’s Happy List in 2017. She has just brought out her first children’s book The Boy at the Back of the Class about a refugee boy. Simeon Moore, Co-founder of DatsTV is a writer, musician and advocate for young people. Moore was a member of a Birmingham gang and now works to tackle what he sees as the glamorisation of gang culture. He brings vision and creativity and works to impact positively on their lives. Moore and co-founder Dylan Duffus created DatsTV, a new YouTube channel aiming to challenge, and provide an alternative to those channels and music videos that glamorise gun and knife-culture and to encourage young people to walk away from gang violence. sounddelivery champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. www.sounddelivery.org.uk Weʼre raising £60,000 to create a network of media confident storytellers led by people with lived experience of the social issues challenging society today. If you'd like to support, find our page here. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfundi...