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Policy Committee

Posted on Our people by · June 17, 2019 2:12 PM

What is the Policy Committee?

The Policy Committee is elected by party members to develop, champion and be custodians for our fantastic policies. They help the party raise awareness of, and support for, our policies; gather intel from and develop relationships with organisations and individuals working on our policy goals; create momentum around political opportunities for progress towards our policies; and, engage and inspire existing and prospective members to take action and win change.

While our Democracy Commission is underway and until our 2022 party conference, the Policy Committee will be working together on the following:

Acting as spokespeople across the party’s seven policy areas
Developing a manifesto for the 2022 local elections
Preparing policy motions for conference and ensuring the coherence and consistency of other policy motions
Coordinating our response to relevant national consultations
Updating the Policy Document
Supporting longer term policy development and helping the party work through policy conflicts

They will also work with the Democracy Commission to develop a blueprint for the next phase of the Policy Committee, based on input from members.

Who is on the Policy Committee?

Kathryn Adkins

Kathryn is extremely passionate about tackling the Gender Pay Gap - she is a founding member of the Women’s Equality Party and co-leader of the Manchester branch. She finds it shocking that the UK still has a significant Gender Pay Gap, and many organisations still don’t believe that they need to try and close their Gap, as they believe it's due to women’s choices!

Kathryn is a qualified accountant and has several years’ experience working in senior management positions to effect organisational change. She is on the Board of a large, national charity, and is responsible for shaping strategy and ensuring good governance. She has worked with organisations on their Gender Pay Gap reporting and has run pop-up stalls educating the public on the issue.

Tabitha Morton

Tabitha believes ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) is the most important of our 7 core objectives. While it’s still acceptable for women to be raped and killed, none of us will be free. She believes we must end this epidemic of violence to achieve true equality.

Tabitha currently leads WEP’s work to end VAWG:
• She has implemented an end VAWG strategy with the Metro Mayor of Liverpool.
• She is working with the branch in Manchester to do the same.
• She has introduced a campaign model for branches that takes activists on a journey to becoming experts on ending VAWG in their area.

Tabitha has a strong track record of both press and broadcast interviews for WEP and am often requested to comment both locally and nationally on VAWG matters, as well as receiving invitations to speak publicly at conferences and events.

Christine Dean

Christine was the Waltham Forest Branch Leader, a List Candidate for GLA 2020 elections and a member of the BAME caucus. She is a former family lawyer with over 20 years’ experience representing women and young girls who were subject to domestic violence and abuse.

Her experience gives her a unique insight into the current problems and failings in the protection available for women and young girls today. Christine wants to play a part in shaping more effective and female-focused violence prevention policies. She has an excellent working knowledge of the party's policies on VAWG.

Executive Committee

Posted on Our people by · November 12, 2018 2:46 PM

Catherine Mayer, President

Catherine is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist with a career spanning The Economist, the German news weekly FOCUS and TIME magazine. Her most recent book 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World!' includes the story of why in 2015 she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party. She served as elected president of the Foreign Press Association in London, is on the founding committee of WOW - The Women of the World Festival and was a judge for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is the Executive Director of the think tank, Datum Future.

Catherine is the President of the Women’s Equality Party.

Chris Paouros, Chair of the Executive Committee

Chris is a highly strategic business and charity leader, specialising in the growth of small organisations on a global scale. Chris is a Trustee of Kick It Out, football’s Equality and Inclusion organisation; Just Like Us, an LGBT+ charity for young people; is on the Board of the Football Supporters’ Association and Non-Executive Director of Leaders Unlocked, a social enterprise giving young people a voice.

Chris is of the firm belief that the Women's Equality Party is the only answer to our broken political system and a feminist analysis and solution-focus is the way to fix it.

Leila Fazal

Leila is a mixed-race London resident, a dedicated charity worker for over 20 years and an avid equality rights campaigner. Leila recognises the deprivation, racism and sexism she experienced in her childhood does not have to be the reality. Society can, and should, be equal. She dedicates her spare time to WEP canvassing and sitting on the Executive, Steering and BAME Caucus Committees. She has also stood as a WEP councillor candidate and is currently standing as a GLA candidate.

Annie Rickard

Annie has spent a long career in media and advertising ultimately running a global business.

She is passionate about womens' rights and equality, and believes in the importance of supporting and mentoring young women. the Women's Equality Party is a natural home.

Francesca Pridding

Francesca lives by the sea in Mid Wales and has twin daughters. She reads avidly, she writes badly, and she plays hockey with a level of aggression usually reserved for rugby. She loves live music and the theatre.

WEP is her only political home; until WEP she felt as if she was just screaming into a political abyss - now she's found her crowd...she's much louder!

As a Town Clerk, Francesca project-manages virtually everything for their town; from Summer planting to Christmas lights, allotments to skate parks. She also makes sure the Councillors stay on the straight and narrow.

Steering Committee

Posted on Our people by · March 16, 2018 11:39 AM

The Steering Committee is the Party’s central decision-making body outside of Party conferences. It steers the direction of the Party by agreeing strategy, planning ahead and reacting to internal and external factors. It monitors the Party’s activities and outcomes against its mission, aims and objectives, and makes sure the Party’s activities are within the budget it sets and approves each year. It is also the body with the sole discretion to decide when and where WE stand candidates in elections.

The Steering Committee is made up of the Party Leader, The Party’s Life President and Life M.C, ten members elected by Party Conference, five members recommended by the Steering Committee and appointed at Party conference, and five members randomly selected.

Your Steering Committee members, as of 2021, are:

	Sandi Toksvig Co-founder and MC Sandi is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2016. She is the current Chancellor of Portsmouth University and is involved with many charities focusing on civil liberty, women’s rights and education. Sandi was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards in 2018.
	Catherine Mayer Co-founder and President Catherine is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist with a career spanning The Economist, the German news weekly FOCUS and TIME magazine. Her most recent book 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World!' includes the story of why in 2015 she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party. She served as elected president of the Foreign Press Association in London, is on the founding committee of WOW - The Women of the World Festival and was a judge for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is the Executive Director of the think tank, Datum Future.
	Mandu Reid Leader of the Party In April 2019, Mandu became the first person of colour to lead a national political party in British history when she took the helm at the Women’s Equality Party. Prior to that she spent 12 years working at City Hall for all three Mayors of London. In 2015 she founded The Cup Effect - a charitable social enterprise, advocacy, and campaigning organisation that tackles period poverty in the UK and globally.
	Hannah Peaker Chief of Staff Hannah is responsible for operationalising the Party's strategy, managing the central office team and is the Leader's right-hand woman.
	Clementine Forster Chief Operating Officer and Party Treasurer Clementine is responsible for the strategic operational and financial management of the party. Clementine has a second full time job (sadly unremunerated) called ‘being a mother’. Before she had two full time jobs, she enjoyed not realising how much free time and money she had. She is now determined to support the party in delivering political solutions to the inequalities still faced by women in the UK, including the lack of recognition of, or support for, unpaid care work.
	Ali Smith Secretary to the Steering Committee Ali Smith is a Scot living in Hove and working in London, places she loves. She’s interested in almost everything and earns her living by proof-reading legal documents. Ali loves politics and its idealism, but not how adversarial politics treats people and often skews that idealism, so WE’s advent as a feminist, non-partisan party is a continuing delight to her. Ali is so pleased to have been re-elected to the SC – thank you! Being invisibly disabled with M.E., she can’t canvass, so volunteers for WE doing structural/organisational work. She wants to make a difference wherever she can.
	Chris Paouros Elected to Steering Committee 2016. Elected to Exec Committee 2017. Director since 2016. Chris is a highly strategic business and charity leader, specialising in the growth of small organisations on a global scale. Chris is a Trustee of Kick It Out, football’s Equality and Inclusion organisation; Just Like Us, an LGBT+ charity for young people; is on the Board of the Football Supporters’ Association and Non-Executive Director of Leaders Unlocked, a social enterprise giving young people a voice. Chris is of the firm belief that the Women's Equality Party is the only answer to our broken political system and a feminist analysis and solution-focus is the way to fix it.
	Annie Rickard Chair of the Steering Committee Annie has spent a long career in media and advertising ultimately running a global business. She is passionate about womens' rights and equality and believes in the importance of supporting and mentoring young women. The Womens Equality Party is a natural home.
	Barbara Guest Elected Steering Committee member Barbara was brought up on a Council estate in 1960s and 1970s Manchester and was only able to go to Polytechnic because it was free. It was there she was introduced to class and gender politics, which has influenced her life both professionally and personally ever since. Her background is in social welfare law and adult social care, trying to improve access to social justice and to public services. She now offers consultancy support to a broad range of domestic abuse, mental health and other charities to support them to become sustainable and continue to offer critical services.
	Erin Mansell Appointed to the Steering Committee
	Maureen Obi-Ezekpazu Elected Steering Committee member
	Francesca Pridding Elected Steering Committee member Francesca lives by the sea in Mid Wales and has twin daughters. She reads avidly, she writes badly and she plays hockey with a level of aggression usually reserved for rugby. She loves live music and the theatre. WEP is her only political home; until WEP she felt as if she was just screaming into a political abyss – now she’s found her crowd…she’s much louder! As a Town Clerk, Francesca project-manages virtually everything for their town; from summer planting to Christmas lights, allotments to skate parks. She also makes sure the Councillors stay on the straight and narrow.
	Janet Baker Elected Steering Committee member Janet is a founding member of WEP, elected to the steering committee in 2018, stood for local election 2018, active branch member, canvasser and campaigner. Committed and active member of her residents association – local community is a big passion for her. She’s a self-employed painter and decorator and she also now runs a community centre in South London on Tooting Common. Mum, dog owner and general busy woman.
	Amelia Maling Randomly selected Steering Committee member
	Kate Butler Randomly selected Steering Committee member Kate retrained as a yoga instructor in India three years ago. Prior to that she worked at a refugee charity in Reading and was responsible for Reading earning its 'City of Sanctuary' award. She stood for a seat on West Berkshire Council and campaigned against austerity and library closures in her home town, Newbury. As women's health is chronically under-researched and misunderstood, Kate is working with female physiotherapists. Together they will signpost women to professionals who specialise in women's health. Through teaching yoga and listening to women, she hopes to have a positive effect on women's lives and their health.
	Leila Fazal Elected Steering Committee member Leila is a mixed-race London resident, a dedicated charity worker for over 20 years and an avid equality rights campaigner. Leila recognises the deprivation, racism and sexism she experienced in her childhood does not have to be the reality. Society can and should be equal. She dedicates her spare time to WEP canvassing and sitting on the Executive, Steering and BAME Caucus committees. She has also stood as a WEP councillor candidate and is currently standing as a GLA candidate.
	Emily Bell Randomly selected Committee member
	Hannah Godfrey Randomly selected Steering Committee member
	Sellisha Lockyer Appointed Steering Committee member
	Daniella Jenkins Appointed Steering Committee member
	Kay Wesley Appointed Steering Committee member
	Sarabajaya Kumar Appointed Steering Committee member
	Holly Rothwell Randomly selected Steering Committee member