Theme: Conversations Beyond Borders

Stay connected through the TEDxLondon community

This week we’ll be joined by Lady Phyll, the executive director and co-founder of UK Black Pride and Jamie Windust, our guest curator for Pride 2020.

At TEDxLondon we are extremely privileged to have access to a diverse network of experts. And although there is no shortage of news coverage around COVID-19, we want to bring our community insights that go beyond the headlines, find answers to the questions we’re all asking and examine issues that haven’t had as much attention.

Conversations Beyond Borders is a virtual space for our community to come together, explore ideas worth spreading and help us all feel a little less alone. Since we started these events at the end of March, we have had over 6000 viewers from 54 different countries.

Hosted by TEDxLondon Director and Curator Maryam Pasha, these fortnightly webinars will be available live via Zoom and live streamed on our Facebook page.

Zoom/Facebook Live
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London, Camden, NW2
United Kingdom

Jamie Windust

Award-winning editor, writer, public speaker and model

Jamie Windust is an award-winning editor, writer, public speaker and model. They channel empathy, authenticity and strength through the work they do as a non-binary person surrounding the trans community. They've written for publications such as The Independent, Cosmopolitan and Metro UK. They have recently finished writing their debut book, out in October, offering a multi-dimensional and nuanced insight into life as a non-binary person in the twenty first century. As a speaker, they've delivered powerful talks for TEDxLondonWomen, Cambridge University and for brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Ugg.

Lady Phyll

Executive Director and Co-founder of UK Black Pride

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, widely known as Lady Phyll, is the executive director and co-founder of UK Black Pride - Europe's largest celebration for LGBTQ+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent. Lady Phyll has over 20 years’ experience as an LGBTQ+ rights activist and anti-racism campaigner. She has spent a decade advocating for the rights of workers within the largest civil service union as a lead negotiator on behalf of Civil Service workers and is now the Executive Director of Kaleidoscope Trust an LGBT+ charity that works to defend and uphold human rights. She is also a patron for Albert Kennedy Trust; Diva Magazine columnist, and public speaker focusing on race, gender, sexuality and class. She is named as one of the top 5 on the World Pride Power list.