
Helen Pankhurst CBE...Need we say more? Yes we shall! For the last episode of Season 1, join Nina de Ayala Parker and Peris Thuo in conversation with the incredible, kind and devoted Helen Pankhurst.
Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights, an international development practitioner working mainly in Ethiopia for CARE International and a Trustee of ActionAid, a Professor at MMU and the Chancellor of the University of Suffolk. Helen is the convenor of the Centenary Action Group and of GM4Women 2028 and is the granddaughter of Sylvia, great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, leaders of the British suffragette movement. To reflect on the progress since the struggle for the vote.
In 2018, she wrote Deeds Not Words, the Story of Women’s Rights, then and Now - available here
What an incredible conversation, we hope you feel inspired to go out and fight for gender equality too after listening to this beautiful conversation with Helen Pankhurst, Peris Thuo and Nina de Ayala Parker.
Trigger warning: We speak about Sarah Everard , Police brutality and misogyny and also domestic violence , and FGM .