Our Team

Charlotte is an award-winning barrister, academic, and campaigner. Charlotte represents survivors of rape, domestic abuse and controlling behaviour in the family courts whilst also challenging misconceptions across the sector. She uses her knowledge and experience of the justice system ... stem to advocate for legal change and protect victims. She won awards such as Advocate of the Year by Women and Diversity in Law, and Leading Junior Barrister by The Legal 500. She was featured on Counsel Magazine’s front cover and had an article about her in The Times. Read more

Dr Adrienne Barnett was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981 and practised at the independent Bar in London for over 30 years, for most of which she specialised in Family Law, primarily representing parents and ... and children in serious care cases and in private law cases involving allegations of domestic abuse. She is a door tenant at One Pump Court Chambers. She is a Reader in Law, teaching Family Law and Children and the Law and is Divisional Lead, Private and Commercial Law. Dr Barnett has undertaken research into domestic abuse and family court proceedings for over 26 years and, more recently, parental alienation. She has published widely and presented papers at numerous academic and professional conferences in the UK and abroad. She is a member of the Advisory Group of Rights of Women, a core founder member of SHERA Research Network, a member of Hague Mothers (a FiliA legacy project) and UK lead of its International Strategy Group, and a member of the Advisory Group of SafeLives Domestic Abuse Training for Lawyers. Read her recent publication here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2024.2414620 Read more

Lucy is a senior grade gender-based violence professional with extensive experience of strategic leadership, operational delivery, fundraising, policy and campaigns. Most recently, she was the VAWG Policy Advisor to the Victims’ Commissioner for London and the Rape Crisis Centre Manager ... at the Women and Girls Network. She is managing Right to Equality’s campaigns: Ending the Presumption of Contact and Breaking Bias, Building Justice. Read more

Allison is passionate about supporting all survivors of sexual abuse. Their research focuses on sexual abuse and intimate partner violence, recently examining barriers to support service access for LGBTQ+ survivors. They previously served as an adult accompaniment advocate while interning ... with a sexual assault advocacy centre in the United States, simultaneously conducting research on police reporting rates following abuse. Allison is passionate about creating a safer, more equitable world for women and marginalised identities through positive policy change. Read more

Hazel is a social psychologist specialising in sexism and gender-based violence, with extensive experience working alongside police and third-sector organisations to investigate and prevent violence against women and girls. She is a founding member of herEthical AI, who are collaborating ... with Right to Equality to develop AI-driven solutions that identify and address victim-blaming and gender bias in courts. Hazel has worked on projects funded by the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Advisor, the British Academy, and the Home Office’s Operation Soteria Bluestone – a national initiative aimed at transforming police investigations of rape and sexual offences. She is a research consultant on Right to Equality’s “Breaking Bias, Building Justice” campaign. Read more

Jeri is a social media specialist with extensive experience in social media and marketing sectors. Jeri has completed her BSc in Marketing and has recently finished her MSc in International Business and Marketing. She is passionate about the betterment of ... women’s rights and advocating for marginalized communities. She enjoys helping with informational content that increases community knowledge and awareness of these important subjects. Jeri is the Social Media Manager and liaison for all of the Right to Equality social channels (Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, and TikTok). Read more

Nicole is a MA Journalism student at The University of Sheffield, where she is also undertaking the NCTJ diploma, which includes media law. She has a passion for storytelling, particularly about the experiences of women, and sharing ways in which ... we can advocate for ourselves. During her time as a content creator for an all-girls’ school, she has published articles tackling the gender-based challenges in education. Her favourite experiences include reporting at a Cambridge Literary Festival talk about “History’s Forgotten Women” and interviewing a United Nations Consultant about programmes to promote female leadership. Throughout her undergraduate degree in History at The University of Nottingham, her research focused on uncovering the voices of women and other marginalised groups. She was a member of the Law Society and coached the Law Netball Team. Read more

Safa has completed an LLB law undergraduate at Brunel University. She is passionate about helping reform a system that currently leaves women and children at risk of harm. Safa supported Right to Equality as a project manager for their campaign, aiming ... to end the presumption of contact with abusive parents. She works with Survivor Family Network and Eight Street LLP, other organisations that aim to create a safer environment for victims of domestic abuse within the justice system. Read more

Mona is completing her BA in Political Economy at UC Berkeley, with a specialisation in International Law. Her educational specialty is in using the law to promote human rights globally. She’s particularly focused on advocating for marginalised people within the ... justice system. At Right to Equality, Mona served as a researcher and assisted with social media. Mona is committed to reshaping legislation for the enhanced protection of women. Read more

Joanna is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of California School of Law. She is pursuing a certificate in International Law with a focus on human rights. Her previous experience has included the United States Department of Justice, where ... she provided legal analysis for novel and complex issues in federal cases concerning human trafficking, migrant and child labour abuses, and victim advocacy in commercialized sexual exploitation. At Right to Equality, Joanna is a Legal Research Fellow managing research on judicial courts and comparative analysis for affirmative consent laws. Read more

As an LL.M. graduate from UC Berkeley, Mona’s studies are focused on International Law with a special interest in international dispute resolution. She completed her JD degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked for two years at ... the Capital Markets team of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom’s Hong Kong office as a foreign legal assistant. In addition to her passion for international law, she has devoted a substantial amount of time to protecting women’s rights. The opportunity to further involve herself in the cause of empowering underrepresented women to combat systematic unfairness is not one she takes lightly. In the first pro bono case she worked on in December 2022, she had the opportunity to assist in a workplace sexual harassment case. She and her supervising attorney collaborated by brainstorming various litigation strategies to assist the victim and eventually settled the case during a pre-trial mediation for HK $150,000. Since starting at Berkeley Law in August 2023, she has been working with Right to Equality at Berkeley’s Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. As part of this experience, she drafted a policy paper focusing on a comparative analysis of laws across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Europe to support the petition to adopt affirmative consent in the UK’s Sexual Offences Act 2003. Currently, she is working with Right to Equality on various campaigns advocating for women’s rights at family court and continuing the work on the affirmative consent campaign. Outside of law school, she enjoys writing poems, running, and travelling. Since she was 19, she has solo-traveled to 18 countries across four continents, was once trapped on an island in Venice, lived in Paris for six weeks without speaking French, and recently hiked a volcano in Guatemala. Travelling fulfills the other half of her, which craves freedom and fascinating connections with interesting people. Read more

Catrin is an LLB candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her current studies cover a variety of law, including company law, public international law, and feminist legal theory. She is an Articles Editor for the ... LSE Law Review and a contributing writer to LSE’s Amicus Society, which advocates against capital punishment. Catrin is passionate about advancing the rights of women and underrepresented groups within the justice system and is focused on the Judicial Bias campaign at Right to Equality. Read more

Lily is an Advocacy Scholar and Bar Practice Course with the Pro-Bono Masters student at the University of Law and recently graduated with an LLB Law degree from the University of Brighton with final year speciality modules in Family Law ... and Family Justice, and Criminal Evidence. During her degree, she has been a Crown Prosecution Service Mentee, a Legal Clinician at Brighton Legal Clinic, the Mooting Ambassador/Mistress of the Moots of the University of Brighton Law Society, and the Gender Equality Officer and Law School and Department Representative at the University of Roehampton. Lily works on multiple campaigns, including Affirmative Consent, Breaking Bias, Building Justice, and Ending the Presumption of Contact. Lily’s goals for the future are to become a barrister representing women and LGBTQIA2S+ survivors in domestic abuse and sexual offences cases, eradicate rape myths within society and the justice system, reform case law and legislation to fix systemic issues within the criminal and family courts which continuously fail survivors, and make it mandatory for victim-survivors to have a more prominent voice within the legal system and proceedings. In her spare time, Lily focuses on advocacy exercises, spending time with her loved ones, and continues her hobbies of archery, learning Greek, and ocean swimming. Read more