Where culture and attitudes are both reflected and formed.
Where culture and attitudes are both reflected and formed.
Football, in particular, is a microcosm of what’s happening in wider society, the good, the bad and the ugly, racism, misogyny, and gender based violence.
Football, sports and cultural spaces, connect us to each other, the wider world and enable us to create communities.
It’s a space where social transformation can take place – and lasting attitudinal change can happen.
Amna Abdullatif is a community psychologist who has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, leading national and international projects to support women and children.
She is a Vital Voices Visionary, whose work has been recognised among 20 women global leaders in Washington DC.
She is also a professional coach and trainer interested in supporting organisations navigate inclusion work and managing conflict. She is invested in collective care and supporting minortised women to take up space in their communities and places of work.
Amna completed her masters in community psychology and has her thesis ‘The voices of women in the Arab Spring’ published in the Journal of Social Science Education.
She is an international speaker and writer and has spoken across the UK as well as Palestine, Lebanon, Estonia to New Zealand and has been published in The Anthology of Silence.
She was elected as a local Councillor in 2019 representing the ward of Ardwick in Central Manchester as the first Arab and visibly Muslim woman.
Huda Jawad is an intersectional Muslim feminist, co-founder, and Executive Director of the Faith & VAWG Coalition. The Coalition is a partnership of organisations and activists working at the intersections of faith, feminism, and violence against women and girls. She is also a founding member of the Anti-Racism Working Group, which was tasked by the women’s sector to create an anti-racism charter that can be adopted sector-wide.
Huda was the former co-director of Musawah, an international non-governmental organisation that led the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. She was also the Lead Co-Organiser of Women’s March London, which organised annual events and public demonstrations that brought over 600,000 people to the streets of London to protest misogyny and racism.
Currently a trustee of Counterpoints Arts, a refugee arts charity and one of the trios of the award-winning anti-racist campaign group, The Three Hijabis
Shaista Aziz is an award winning anti-racism and equalities campaigner, broadcaster and journalist.
Shaista has more than twenty years experience of working in complex humanitarian emergencies as a former international aid worker, specialising in working with women and girls and displaced populations, around the world.
She is a Therapeutic Cousellor, passionate about mental health and holistic approaches to community healing and wellbeing. She’s an experienced facilitator and coach and works through the lens of Transactional Analysis complementary therapeutic counselling and working with groups and organisations.
