Kat Banyard


Kat Banyard is a British author and activist against sexual inequality. She is the co-founder and director of UK Feminista, a feminist pressure group.
In 2010, Kira Cochrane, writing for The Guardian, called Banyard "the UK's most influential young feminist".

Career

While at university in Sheffield, in 2004 Baynard set up FEM Conferences, a conference designed to bring together a range of campaign groups and activists working on gender equality to build communications, as well as educate people about gender discrimination. In a profile with The Observer, Baynard said she set up the conference because she "wanted to be able to go somewhere to be inspired and there wasn't anything like it"
Baynard worked at the Fawcett Society until 2010 as Campaigns Officer