June Eric-Udorie
Author
Represented by Julia Kardon
June Eric-Udorie is a British writer and feminist activist. Named Elle UK’s “Female Activist of the Year” in 2017, she has been included on lists of influential and inspiring women by the BBC, the Guardian, and others. A co-founder of “Youth for Change,” an initiative that works to combat female genital mutilation and forced marriage around the world, her advocacy has taken her to classrooms, the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival, the United Nations, and more. In 2015, she spearheaded a successful campaign to overturn the British government’s decision to remove feminism from the nationally mandated A-level (high school) politics syllabus; more recently, she raised funds to take five hundred underprivileged girls and young women of color to see the film Hidden Figures. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, the Telegraph, ESPN The Magazine, and Fusion, among others.
