- Amy Callaghan is an International Relations student at the University of St Andrews. Originally from Glasgow, she has been writing for Powered By Girl since 2014. She is particularly interested in writing about feminism on an international political level, LGBT issues globally, and diversity and representation in the film and music industries. As well as Powered By Girl, she has written for several other youth-led online publications, including Affinity Magazine and Ameliorate. You can find her on Twitter @amyhcallaghan
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- Kara Chyung is a high school junior in eastern Pennsylvania. She is a tennis player, a clarinetist, a student council officer, a Scholastic Scrimmage team member, and a vocalist in her school’s ensembles. She loves math, reading, listening to music, Harry Potter, The Big Bang Theory, and koalas, and also enjoys trying and failing at baking, winning arguments in politics, writing, and making origami. Through PBG, she hopes to dispel the stereotypes about feminism and to spread the message that feminism is for all girls. Ultimately, she believes that differences should be celebrated, not disparaged. She’s excited to be a member of the PBG team and help empower girls.
- Bex Dudley was born with a heart shaped birthmark on their head, which they say is a sign that they have too much love to give for it to all fit in their body. Bex’s time is divided between ranting about the state of the world, and loudly (and tunelessly…) singing songs from Wicked around their London flat- oh, and trying to complete their Sociology degree, too. They cannot be identified by their hair colour as it changes too frequently, but, as a part time Lush assistant, is permanently preceded by a waft of nice smells. Bex’s main interests are feminism, LGBTQ+ topics and mental health, but they’ll argue for everything and anything they feel is right.
- Kaylen Forsyth is a 19 year old university student, originally from Maryport, Cumbria, now studying at LJMU for a Creative Writing degree. She is interested in literature and how this medium can be specifically used in order to promote social progression and equality. Feminism has fascinated and inspired her for many years, and her writing mainly focuses on gender issues in relation to social class and status. Such an avid passion for literature also means that her most recent pieces of writing deal with the possibility of putting across themes of social injustice through a fictional setting.
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- Evangeline Giannopoulos is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, though she is originally from New York. She studies Communication and Consumer Psychology. She is enthralled by the power of communication and - with good intentions - its ability to enact meaningful change. She is passionate about social justice and particularly thinks written pieces push their audiences to tackle systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
- Anna Marie is a sick mad white queer femme who loves art, chocolate, books and the colour red. They are a moon and sun capricorn! They love books and being a witch and are almost finished studying for their dreary english literature degree. They love queer theory and zines and if anyone would like to join them and their anti-capital letters (and anti-capitalist) tweeting they tweet @internet_saint
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- I am Issy McConville. I am an English and History student, currently living somewhere between London, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. I’m passionate about feminism, and I’m especially interested in questioning the normalisation of sexism in the media. In my spare time I love cooking, running and Netflix, and I’m an active member of the Labour Party.
- Editor: Yas Necati (they/them) I’ve been working with Powered By Girl since I was 15 years old, and still clinging on! PBG changed my life for the better - offered support, an opportunity to rant about the things I cared about and most importantly, community. I hope it continues to do that for generations! I’m a journalist by trade, working for the Independent, and an activist by night. I worked on the No More Page 3 campaign, launched a successful petition for better Sex and relationships Education in the UK and nowadays I campaign primarily on issues of sexual violence. I also really like cats.
- My name is Tope Onanuga and I am currently a student and a disability rights activist. As a disability activist, I will continue to express my views and opinions in order to empower and advocate for people who have a disability like myself, as my ultimate goal is to better our chances in life by promoting disability awareness through campaigning. I also hope by becoming a writer for Powered By Girl and SPARK I will be able to keep on learning about social issues, such as housing, in society and the best way to tackle them. In my spare time I enjoy helping charities and catching up on TV shows.
- Christiana Paradis currently works at Susquehanna University as the Program Coordinator for the DOJ OVW Grant. She organizes primary prevention programming on campus surrounding the topics of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault. She previously worked at The Women’s Center, Inc. of Columbia/Montour where she was responsible for overseeing the prevention education programming at TWC as well as the volunteer, child advocacy, medical advocacy and counseling programs. She has presented on original research topics at the following institutions: Council on Social Work Education, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, NASW-PA, Susquehanna University, Bloomsburg University, PCADV 40th Anniversary Conference and Thiel College. She is also an adjunct Women’s Studies faculty at Susquehanna University.
- Hi I’m Simran Sangherra, I’m 17 and from Leicestershire. I’m currently doing A Levels in Government and Politics, Law and Economics. I’m a Member of UK Youth Parliament for Leicestershire, and passed a motion on ‘Feminism in the National Curriculum’. I’ve ran campaigns on Votes at 16, a Curriculum for Life and Mental Health. I am passionate about intersectional feminism, and so I’ve recently joined as a Youth For Change advocate, where I’m going to be working on consent and reporting, amongst other issues such as ending FGM and Child Forced Marriage. Another area of interest to me is increasing youth volunteering through my campaigning with the NHS Youth Forum, as well as around Peer Support. You can follow me on twitter @SimranSangherra
- Sarneet Saran is a 17-year-old student from Hong Kong, China. She has a passion for numerous socio-political issues, such as mental health, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. As an intersectional feminist, bisexual, and having grown up as a minority in Hong Kong, she is especially interested in the feminist issues of minority and queer populations. Besides socio-political issues, she enjoys history (especially race and global history) and psychology. In her spare time, she writes poetry, and performs it at local open-mic events.
- Sophia Simon-Bashall (they/them) is no longer a teenager, but certainly nowhere near an adult. They are a mental health advocate, fan of body positive activism, and a proud fangirl. They are usually reading a book, listening to music, at a gig, or writing about any of the former things. They are particularly passionate about rock music in relation to feminism and sexism, and being a One Direction fan - which apparently makes for a bizarre combination of loves, but they’re not particularly bothered about that.
- Stephanie Wang is a freshman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania studying Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a member of Vanderbilt Student Government, a writer for a few sites like the Vanderbilt Political Review and the Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab, a mentor for students from a nearby high school, and a planner of diversity outreach initiatives. In addition, she has a radio show on Vanderbilt’s independent radio station! In the past, Stephanie has been published by the New York Times, PublicSource, and Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette. Stephanie is particularly passionate about LGBT issues, representation in media, and minority retention in STEM. In her free time, Stephanie likes to binge shows on Netflix, go to concerts, sleep, make angsty Spotify playlists, and, of course, write.
- My name is Isla Whateley. I’m 21 and studying Social Anthropology at university in my final year. I’m interested in politics, LGBT+ issues and disability rights and am keen to go into the third sector when I graduate to try and make a tangible change. Particularly I am fascinated by Northern Irish politics and the way that impacts on LGBT+ rights there, after doing my university dissertation on this topic and volunteering with Belfast Pride over the summer of 2017. In my spare time I enjoy watching TV shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and critically evaluating them and their representation of LGBT+ issues afterwards in my head.
- Pip Williams (she/they) is a Veterinary Medicine undergraduate, music blogger, and reluctant Labour Party member. They are passionate about bisexuality, green tea, cats, and pop music and can be found all over the internet as @pipsuxx. Some causes particularly important to them include abortion rights and bodily autonomy, sex worker rights and decriminalisation, and queer and trans liberation. With PBG, Pip hopes to use their platform to highlight injustice and oppression whilst creating educational tools and resources for feminists and activists of all ages.