A charity executive with over 20 years of director-level experience, Farah is passionate about women’s rights. She has worked on women’s rights and gender issues for most of her career and is committed to feminist principles of leadership including courage, sharing of power and accountable collaboration

Rachel is the Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Minehead, a rural constituency that straddles the Devon-Somerset border. As an MP she sits on the Public Accounts Committee.

Her career has spanned many areas. Beginning her career as a teacher, Rachel then worked in roles with national and international NGOs, including in former Eastern-bloc countries. More recently, she was Director of Communications at the National Farmers’ Union – becoming its first female board member in 100 years – before going on to be the Head of Strategy at the Environment Agency.

As a politician and a working mother, Rachel has mastered many important skills. She thrives on the camaraderie of the campaign trail, knows how to keep people’s spirits up, and is focused on being the best constituency MP she can be.

Jenny is a Senior Subject Specialist at the PSHE Association, working closely with the Director of Education to lead the Subject Specialist team. She led PSHE education in two London schools, and has a Masters in Teaching and Learning. Since joining the PSHE Association, she has worked with a range of agencies, from the NSPCC, to the Home Office, to the National Crime Agency, developing materials that support schools to deliver highly effective, safe PSHE education

Jess Asato is the Member of Parliament for Lowestoft, elected in 2024, and a member of the Education Select Committee. Prior to being elected, Jess was the Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the children’s charity Barnardo’s, worked for the domestic abuse charity SafeLives, and was a political advisor to Tessa Jowell.

Jess Smith leads the Women and Girls Online Safety team at Ofcom, and previously led the Online Safety Public Policy team where she oversaw the passage of the Online Safety Act. She joined Ofcom in 2022 from DCMS, where she led the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, focussing on how the potential of data could be unlocked for the public good. Prior to this Jess spent more than a decade in HM Treasury in various policy and spending roles, and completed a three year placement in Hong Kong where she worked for the Jardine Matheson conglomerate.

Professor Catherine White is the Medical Director for IFAS. Previously the Clinical Director of St Mary’s SARC, Manchester, Cath is the Sexual Offence Medicine lead for the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine.

Her research was used as evidence to change the law regarding strangulation. Cath was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in The Queen’s 2014 New Year’s Honours List for services to Vulnerable People.

Luke Hart, and his brother Ryan Hart, share their family’s story of coercive control and domestic homicide. In 2017 they released their book, Remembered Forever, and set up their organization, CoCoAwareness, to increase the awareness of coercive control. So far, their work has taken them to over 13 countries and they have trained tens of thousands of professionals in identifying, understanding, and ending domestic abuse.

They are White Ribbon Ambassadors and Refuge Champions speaking out against male violence towards women and children. They have also worked with the charity Level Up to produce and advocate for the acceptance of domestic homicide reporting guidelines and have received a number of awards for their work in raising awareness – including the Lincolnshire Police Outstanding Contribution to Public Service 2018/2019, BBC Inspirations 2020 award and the Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of 2020.

Siobhan Blake was appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor (CCP) of CPS West Midlands in March 2021, having previously been the Chief Crown Prosecutor of Mersey-Cheshire since 2016. Before this, she was Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for Cymru-Wales Area for four years.

Siobhan qualified as a solicitor having studied law at Southampton and joined the CPS in 1994 as a trainee solicitor. After qualification Siobhan worked in private practice for a period before returning to the CPS.

Siobhan is an experienced prosecutor who has advised upon and prosecuted many high-profile cases, becoming a specialist in the prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences. She obtained her Higher Rights of Audience in 2004 and became a frontline manager in 2005.

Siobhan has been at the forefront of the work undertaken by the CPS to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) – domestic violence, rape and other violent offences in which the victims are predominantly women. She is now the National CCP Lead for the CPS on rape and serious sexual offence prosecutions.

Laura Smith is the Clinical Lead for the Lighthouse Service at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Laura is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a special interest in recovery and justice following child sexual abuse. At the Lighthouse, Laura is responsible for leading England’s first Child House, a Barnahus model service. Laura is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and hold additional professional leadership roles at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, as Trust Lead for Psychological Therapies and Children and Young People’s Head of Psychological Therapies.

Emma is the Director of Housing at Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse, where she leads initiatives including the Whole Housing Approach, Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA), and teams addressing multiple disadvantages and homelessness.

Her previous roles include serving as the Strategic Lead for Domestic and Sexual Abuse in Cheshire East, where she coordinated efforts to end domestic abuse through agency collaboration and cocreation with those directly affected. Previously, she has worked on projects focusing on high-risk perpetrator intervention development, and acted as the national technical advisor for innovative approaches to child safeguarding and domestic abuse.

A charity executive with over 20 years of director-level experience, Farah is passionate about women’s rights. She has worked on women’s rights and gender issues for most of her career and is committed to feminist principles of leadership including courage, sharing of power and accountable collaboration