Akeela Ahmed MBE has been an equalities
activist and campaigner for nearly nearly 20 years. On Muslim Women’s
Day, she was listed in Nylon magazine as an activist that is ‘making a
difference’. In 2014 she founded ‘She Speaks We Hear’ which gives
unfiltered women’s voice a platform.
Akeela advises and works with
government in tackling anti-Muslim hatred, sitting on the Anti-Muslim
Hatred Working Group as Chair of the Independent Members. She is also a
social entrepreneur within the social housing sector. Akeela is
co-organiser of the Women’s March on London and in January 2017, she
spoke to over one hundred thousand people at the Women’s March on
London. For her work with WML she was listed as one of Stylist’s Women
of the Year 2017.
Her portrait is part of the National Trust’s We Are
Bess exhibition at Hardwick Hall, which showcases modern and historic
female leaders.
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