Catherine Mayer, Co-founder and President
Catherine Mayer, an author and journalist, co-founded the Women’s Equality Party. She is also co-founder of Primadonna Festival and co-curator of the Death Festival. Her books include Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! In 2022, WH Allen/Penguin published a new, substantially updated edition of her bestselling biography of the Prince of Wales, Charles: The Heart of a King.
She served as the elected President of the Foreign Press Association in London from 2003-2005. She is on the founding committee of WOW—the Women of the World festival. She was a judge for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction. The winner of the FPA Story of the Year in 2010 and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize the following year, she has also been named in Total Politics’ Top Political Journalists, WIE Women in Excellence 2013, Progress 1000 Evening Standard Equality Champion 2016, Oxford University Suffrage Champion 2018, Gender Equality Top 100: Most Influential People in Global Policy 2018 and, with Sandi Toksvig, NatWest Spirit of Everywoman Award 2018.
After the death of her husband, the musician Andy Gill, she took on his unfinished projects, releasing two EPs by his band Gang of Four, and acting as executive producer for a tribute album, The Problem of Leisure: A celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four featuring globally famous musicians. She continues to manage his estate and run his recording studio.
Annie Rickard
Annie has spent a long career in media and advertising ultimately running a global business.
She is passionate about women's rights and equality, and believes in the importance of supporting and mentoring young women. the Women's Equality Party is a natural home.
Andrea Wilson
Andrea is a founding member of the Richmond branch and has run canvassing and knocked doors in 5 elections, striking up conversations about what matters to people since 2016. Andrea’s professional background is in international marketing research and strategy and she is a Trustee of a digital learning charity, Learn and Thrive. She has had budget and planning responsibilities worldwide and has worked across many different sectors. An experienced cross-cultural leader, Andrea advocates for dialogue, partnerships, and evidence-based decisions to create change. A Cumbrian, Andrea lives in London.
Sarabajaya Kumar
Sarabajaya is a scholar-activist teaching and researching about the non-profit sector, leadership, and equalities. She contested the GLA elections in 2021 and is a proud Haringey branch member. She is active in civil society, is a disability rights advocate, and is committed to developing the next generation of feminist activists.
Olivia Vincenti
I have a lot to offer having had a 30-year career as a senior manager in several London boroughs as well as in the voluntary sector: leading and managing children and family services, teams, and multi-agency programmes; delivering organisational development and transformation; coaching and mentoring. I want to continue to use all my skills, knowledge, and experience to fight for social justice, equalities and tackling the climate crisis. Global majority people and poor communities are the hardest hit by conservative and environmentally damaging policies. Our voices, perspectives and solutions are needed to shape social and economic policies that benefit everyone. I am totally committed to eliminating oppression of any kind, and in particular, racial and gender equality. I have worked hard to understand the impact of oppressions on myself, my family and my community and society. There is still much to learn, and I am eager to do so. I have a deep understanding and appreciation of building partnerships to achieve the best outcomes. joined the Women’s Equality Party. I am co-leader of the Barnet Branch and a former European Parliament candidate for London 2019. In 2022 stood in the local council elections. I also volunteer with a national children’s charity and an international peer counselling organisation focused on addressing emotional barriers to movement building and on healing from damage and separation caused by oppression.
Erin Mansell
Erin is a life long feminist, she went to Greenham Common as a baby and was marched around her small town on the Isle of Wight by her mum on International Women’s Day. Erin worked on the WE staff team from 2017 to 2020 and is now Head of Communications and Public Affairs at the Women’s Budget Group - a network of volunteers, academics, women’s voluntary organisations and policy experts whose aims are to promote a gender equal economy.
Elisha Foust, Chair of Executive Committee
Elisha is a Business Operations leader with a long career in the technology industry. She’s a founding member and in 2018, she created the WE LGBTQI+ network, a space for LGBTQI+ members and our allies to build community and create partnerships with the wider LGBTQI+ community in the UK. The network grew into the LGBTQI+ Caucus, which takes a truly intersectional approach to feminism and LGBTQI+ rights.
Elisha is passionate about intersectional feminism and believes that the Women’s Equality Party is revolutionary in its approach and achievements.
