CEO and Founder of Bloody Good Period. The charitable organisation working to achieve menstrual equity in the UK.

I wanted to be an artist, or more specifically a fashion designer until I was about 17. I was absolutely obsessed with it - I have drawers full of designs, and used to make my own clothes. Then one day it didn’t feel meaningful to me any more. I think it may have been around the time I discovered feminism to be  honest. Naively, at the time, I thought the two were mutually exclusive. Obviously, now I know that not to be true, but at the time, fashion did not feel feminist to me as a teenage girl. 

Your perfect job may not have been invented yet, so you might have to do it yourself. (spoiler: I did!)

It’s a bunch of people who really, genuinely care about what we do. There are five of us at BGP, and we share an office with ethical fashion label Birdsong. There’s loads of feminist shouting, political chat and a generally upbeat, encouraging vibe. 

I don’t think I’ll be running BGP anymore. Not only do we have designs on not existing in our current provision in five years, but there’s nothing worse than founder syndrome in an organisation. I’m sure it’ll break my heart but I’ll have moved on to something else exciting!

Well obviously us (Bloody Good Period) but also my friend Seyi Akiwowo runs an amazing and very necessary organisation combating online abuse, called Glitch.

Assume you are probably wrong about other people, and work from there. 

Always ask other women for specific advice; just don’t ask to “pick their brains.”

Oh god, I haven’t had a normal day in 3 years! It will generally some combination of replying to emails, meeting with my team, speaking on a panel, on the phone to reporters, writing, reading...painting things red...

Just creating my own organisation that runs in a feminist and forward thinking way. BGP is more than just the service we provide to asylum seekers and refugees, we are also a feminist movement and it’s essential our organisation reflects that. I feel proud every day that a small idea I had has touched thousands of people, and even, sometimes, inspired them.

There are far too many to name but inspiring me today... I would have to say Liv Little (creator of gal dem).

I’ve had so many failures, and I don’t mean that in an annoying, start-up bro way. Just real, crap human ideas that you put out there, because you have to, and that just flop. Probably my biggest “failure” though, was school. I didn’t get particularly great A levels (and I went to a school where anything less than top marks was considered average to poor) but I was determined to get into uni so I worked extra extra hard to get in a couple of years later which taught me I could achieve what I wanted if I pushed myself harder. 

I think I’m a good judge of character.

Assume you are probably wrong about other people, and work from there. 

Tenacity, kindness and a sense of humour.