Yoav Segal

AWARD-WINNING FILM AND THEATRE-MAKER AND IMPACT CONSULTANT, RIGHTSINFO | @yo_segal

Yoav Segal is an award-winning film and theatre-maker, impact consultant and Arts Foundation and Royal Society of the Arts Fellow. He has a passion for social action projects that affect real change and stories that challenge people to think. Yoav works with NGOs, charities and businesses focused on youth engagement, social inclusion and peace-building in conflict zones. His films have been seen at world-leading festivals and prime-time TV, his theatre work at Sadlers’ Wells and other world leading venues and he’s led social action projects for FTSE 50 companies.

Adam Wagner

FOUNDER AND STRATEGIC DIRECTOR, RIGHTSINFO | @adamwagner1

Adam Wagner is the founder and Strategic Director of RightsInfo. In his day job, he is a barrister specialising in human rights law and is well known for his human rights communications work on social and mainstream media. In 2010 he set up the hugely successful UK Human Rights Blog.

Kirstie Brewer

COMMISSIONING EDITOR, THE GUARDIAN | @kirstiejbrewer

Kirstie is a commissioning editor at the Guardian and runs its Letter to the Public series, designed to give a voice to the staff behind public services. She is also a writer on social affairs, women’s rights, and culture for The Guardian, the BBC and The Pool.

Anna Hall

DIRECTOR, TRUE VISION AIRE | @AnnaHallTV

Vicki Brewer

SENIOR SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE | @vicki__brewer

Vicki Brewer, Senior Social Media Executive works in the Social team at Cancer Research UK. The Social team manage all of the social outputs across the charity, from a number of different channels and platforms. From supporting the charity’s fundraising campaigns to ensuring our research breakthroughs are communicated to our supporters, we are a multi-skilled team comprising of video editors, copywriters, strategists and designers.

Charlotte Beaty-Pownall

SENIOR SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER, CANCER RESEARCH UK | @CR_UK

Charlotte Beaty-Pownall, Senior Social Media Manager works in the Social team at Cancer Research UK. The Social team manage all of the social outputs across the charity, from a number of different channels and platforms. From supporting the charity’s fundraising campaigns to ensuring our research breakthroughs are communicated to our supporters, we are a multi-skilled team comprising of video editors, copywriters, strategists and designers.
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

Nathan Murray

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING MANAGER | @MrNathanMurray

Nathan is Social Media Marketing Manager at RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), where he leads on the development, delivery and optimisation of social media marketing activity for RNIB and Action for Blind People. Before joining RNIB, Nathan spent three years at the RNLI where he was responsible for creating and curating social media content about the lifesaving work of the RNLI. Nathan is passionate about user-focused content and exploring how new messaging platforms can be used in the Third Sector.

Nicki Fitz-Gerald

AWARD WINNING PHOTOGRAPHY, iPhoneographyCentral.com FOUNDER | @iphoneographyC 

Nicki is an award-winning iPhone photographer and is the founder of iPhoneographyCentral.com. She works as an artist, author, speaker, educator and graphic designer. Her passion for creating images and short videos on her iPhone began in 2009 and has taken her on an amazing journey; from co-authoring the book, affectionately known as the bible of creative iPhone photography; “The Art of iPhone Photography”, to hosting an online iPhone photography series for AdoramaTV. She was a keynote speaker and taught workshops at the innovative new mobile journalism conference in 2015 and 2016.

www.iPhoneographyCentral.com

Catherine Allen

VIRTUAL REALITY DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER | @_CatherineAllen

Catherine is a virtual reality director and producer, with a multidisciplinary background of apps, VR, documentary and theatre. She recently produced one of the BBC’s first VR documentaries, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, and is about to launch a new 360 video format for the BBC. Catherine began her career co-founding the factual production company, Ember Television and built it to be one of Birmingham’s largest online video production companies. She then worked as a producer/director at acclaimed educational app publisher, Touchpress; working on the BAFTA-winning Disney Animated app, with Disney Interactive.

Jes Bailey

CROWDFUNDING SPECIALIST, CROWDFUND 360 | @crowdfund360 

Justin Mullender

| @JustinMullender

Justin Mullender is a specialist in mobile content creation and communications planning, currently supporting member and staff communications at The Scout Association. Justin started his career in pop promo and commercials production working for HMV, L’Oreal and the Spice Girls. As a volunteer he has led a number of low budget volunteer communication teams at large scale Scout events. Recently, Justin became a restauranteur and used his wide range of communication skills to turn a rundown country pub into a thriving restaurant in Chelmsford via video and photography promotions on social media.

Jude Habib

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, SOUNDDELIVERY | @judehabib

Jude is the Founder and Director of sounddelivery. She set up sounddelivery to help non-profit organisations and other socially-minded enterprises embrace the changing media landscape and find new ways of telling their stories. As a former BBC producer Jude’s work has always focused on the power of human interest stories and is passionate about giving a voice to stories and issues that don’t get reported and strives to support people with lived experience to be confident to tell those stories themselves.

DARREN MURINAS

CHAIR, STOKE EXPERT CITIZENS | @darrenmurinas @expertcitizens

For the last three years Darren has used his lived experience to offer advice to VOICES of Stoke, a Big Lottery-funded programme testing alternative approaches to tackling multiple needs, including substance misuse, homelessness, alcoholism and offending behaviour. A key aim is to create a new narrative challenging media prejudice and public stereotypes. Their work helped to attract an investment of nearly £10m from the Big Lottery Fund for Stoke-on-Trent to help people with multiple needs. Over this time he has developed his skills in storytelling, public speaking, blogging and filmmaking. Darren is passionate about passing his new skills on to other Expert Citizens, empowering them and making their voices heard. Darren is a trustee at Lankelly Chase.

Lisa Jeffery

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION | @lisajjeffery

A Chartered Marketer with 10+ years’ experience delivering strategic and practical marketing/communications solutions across the creative, corporate and charity sectors. Lisa has worked at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation since April 2015 and is passionate about using design and technology to help people connect, collaborate and innovate for social good.

Bob Snarey

CREATIVE ONLINE MARKETING CONSULTANT | @RobertSnarey

Bob is passionate about helping Charities get their message across. He has been involved with charities actively for over 25 years in Europe and Africa. Most recently he has been working with a National Children’s Charity and it is there that he realised what a powerful, quick and cheap medium video was for getting a message across. He has equipped himself with all the skills necessary to teach Charities how to do it themselves and how to share it. This is manifesting itself in his new project Glowworm TV (not-for-profit) which is in the process of being formed now. Bob’s background is in Advertising and Marketing having worked in the big Ad Agencies here in UK and in Sweden.

http://www.bobsnarey.co.uk/

Dawn Newton

COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT | @goreckidawn

Dawn is a creative communications consultant with exceptional people skills and endless enthusiasm. She enjoys inspiring and encouraging everyone she works with. Dawn specialises in placing the audience at the heart of her marketing strategies, creating a real sense of community both online and offline. Having worked with lots of small charities, Dawn is passionate about enabling charities to create high impact communications with minimal resources.