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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Today's guest is with the brilliant activist and entrepreneur Seyi Akiwowo: the Founder and Executive Director of Glitch, a young not-for-profit organisation determined to end online abuse. Seyi travels the globe developing practical solutions with Governments, NGOs and companies to protect our online public spaces from hate and abuse.
In 2018, she was named Stylist Magazine’s Woman of the Week, she is also Amnesty International’s Human Rights Defender and is part of the #ToxicTwitter campaign to end online abuse against women.
Aged 23, Seyi was elected as the youngest black female Councillor in East London and has had nine successful years working in politics and the charity and policy sectors both in the UK and Europe.
In this episode, we discuss the rise of online abuse (especially in lockdown), gender based abuse, how to be a good online ally online and offline, action we can take, and all the amazing work Seyi and Glitch are doing to stop such harmful online behaviour becoming so widespread.
More information on GLITCH: https://fixtheglitch.org/
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0:56.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-O-D Elite. |
1:06.0 | Today's guest is Shayi Akibowo, the founder and executive director of Glitch, |
1:12.0 | a not-for-profit organization determined to end online abuse. |
1:16.0 | Through her lived experience and expertise, Shayi travels the globe developing practical solutions |
1:22.0 | with governments, NGOs and companies to protect our online public spaces from hate and abuse. |
1:30.0 | In 2018 she was named Stylus Magazine's Women of the Week. |
1:34.0 | She is also Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender and is part of the |
1:38.4 | H-Toxic Twitter campaign to end online abuse against women. |
1:43.0 | Shee was elected as the youngest black female counselor in East London at age 23 |
1:49.0 | and has had nine successful years working in politics and the charity and policy sectors, both in the UK and Europe. |
1:56.0 | She is such an impressive person and her bio is probably about 10 times as long as the one I've just read. |
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