Sarah Corbett
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Sarah Corbett is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow who was given an honorary fellowship in 2022.
Sarah Corbett was born in 1983 into an activist family in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK.
A professional campaigner most recently with Oxfam GB, Corbett founded Craftivist Collective in 2009 to help people deliver what she coined ‘Gentle Protest’ tactics. Her pioneering work has helped to change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world.
Corbett works globally with charities, museums, galleries and media to reach new audiences for activism. Co-creator of the Girlguiding Craftivism badge (2018), she has exhibited in Stockholm (2015) and at Helsinki Design Week (2016). Her talk ‘Activism Needs Activists’ was chosen as a TED Talk of The Day.