I am Head of Policy, Research and Influencing at the charity One Small Thing, which aims to redesign the justice system for women and their children. I am also a Trustee for Agenda – Alliance for Women and Girls at Risk.

My Churchill Fellowship in 2018 focused on support for women experiencing homelessness in Canada, Finland and Sweden. This was an issue I felt passionate about, having worked in homelessness and seen women continually failed by a complicated and often male-dominated system.

On my visits, I saw services that were tailored to women's needs and recognised the trauma they had experienced. On my return, this learning fed into the London housing reciprocal scheme for women and families fleeing abuse I had set up and managed at Safer London, which was a winner of the London Homelessness Awards 2018. I then worked as Research Lead at the Young Women's Trust and ran a national event on young women's housing to disseminate my learning further.

In my current role I draw heavily on my Fellowship findings to explore how the justice system can better recognise and respond to women's trauma, and provide alternatives to prison which includes safe housing.