Board advisor
An experienced youth campaigner with lived experience of the realities of being from a low-income family and the barriers that this creates in and beyond education, Sophie has done an array of advocacy work. She has undertaken media interviews, speeches, written testimonies in academic reports and recently spoke on a panel at the Labour Party Conference, representing Magic Breakfast alongside the Minister for Early Years.
Sophie is studying Social Policy, Sociology and Crime at university. She has campaigned against food poverty since the age of 16, when free school meals were taken away overnight in the pandemic, which detrimentally impacted her family and community. Her passions are creating awareness around the effects of poverty on education and young people’s futures, particularly in the North East where she feels the area’s struggles are not always recognised within advocacy spaces.