Judges
Afsana Lachaux is Director of the Sweaty Betty Foundation, a global charity focused on empowering women and girls to lead healthy and active lives. She was joint winner of the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize in 2019.
Afsana Lachaux
Jade is a survivor-advocate and founder of Make Yourself Heard, a platform using art, storytelling, and activism to challenge injustice and amplify survivors’ voices. After successfully suing the CPS over its handling of her rape case, she now campaigns for systemic change and recently launched the Right to Be Reviewed campaign. Her story is featured in the BBC documentary Sexsomnia: Case Closed. Jade Blue is a previous winner of the Emma Humphreys x Centre for Women’s Justice Award (2023/2024).
Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott
Karen has more than 35 years’ experience in the women’s sector encompassing frontline delivery, operational and strategic management, governance and research. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Femicide Census, the UK’s most comprehensive source of data on women killed by men and the men who killed them. In 2012 she started Counting Dead Women recording and commemorating women killed by men in the UK. She is an Ambassador for nia, a charity providing services for women, girls and children who have been subjected sexual and domestic violence, including prostitution, having previously been CEO from 2009-2023. She has a PhD in sociology looking at men’s fatal violence against women from the University of Durham. Karen’s first book 'Defending Women’s Spaces', looks at the importance of single-sex spaces, particularly for women who have been subjected to men’s violence.
Karen Ingala Smith
Fiona has worked to end violence against women and girls for the past 30 years. Using her lived experience she has worked to raise awareness of the realities of the sex trade. She is Founder and CEO of Build A Girl UK. Fiona waived her anonymity to fight to have past convictions wiped from hers and many other women's records after being wrongly convicted for street prostitution as a vulnerable girl.
Fiona Broadfoot
Julie is a journalist, author, and longtime feminist campaign against male violence towards women and girls.
Julie Bindel
Rosie is Co-Director of Project Resist . Her work, writing and politics are informed by her roots in anarcha-socialist punk DIY music, collectivist organising and activism. She has three decades of advocacy and movement building experience to end violence against black, minoritised and migrant women and girls alongside work with children and young survivors of violence and abuse and women subject to detention and incarceration. Her work has included frontline advocacy and management roles and the development of a wide range of women and children’s services including safe accommodation. More recently Rosie has worked in national social and cultural policy, research, training and consultancy roles. She holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Durham University.
Rosie Lewis
Selma is the Executive Director of Southall Black Sisters.
Selma Taha