WorkPride 2023: The Best LGBTQ+ Media Campaign of 2023

Speakers:

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  Alexandre Monteiro

  Worldwide Business Director / Founding member & Partnerships Lead
  WPP

  Portuguese Advertising professional living and working in London since 2013. LGBTQ+ activist founding member and Partnerships Lead for WPP UNITE.

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  Christopher Kenna

  CEO
  Brand Advance

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  David Adamson

  Deputy Head of Strategy
  The & Partnership (WPP)

  Deputy Head of The&Partnership London. Founder of Unite, WPP's LGBTQ+ Community.

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  Linda Riley

  Publisher
  DIVA Media Group

  Linda began her career in publishing over 20 years ago as joint publisher of both g3 and Out in the City magazine, and started working in diversity related events a decade later. She has become a powerhouse in the diversity and inclusion sector, starting initiatives such as the Global Diversity List, European Diversity Awards, the Pride Power List and many more. Linda has been publisher of DIVA magazine, Europe’s leading brand for LGBTQI women and non binary people; she is the founder of Lesbian Visibility Week. Linda is a former Board Director of US based LGBT campaign group GLAAD (2013 - 2019) and Patron of LGBT homelessness charity akt. Currently, she is a Patron of Diversity Role Models, a LGBT anti-bullying charity. Linda is also a House of Stonewall Golden Champion for Stonewall Housing. In November 2017, Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler MP, appointed Linda as the Opposition Labour Party’s LGBT Diversity Lead.
 Linda is also a former Stonewall Award winner and Business Icon of the Year from the Icon Awards 2017.

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  Ebone Bell

  Editor and Keynote Speaker
  Tagg Magazine

  Eboné Bell is a business owner, speaker, and trailblazer who shines bright in the world of entrepreneurship, DEI, activism, and LGBTQ media. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tagg Magazine. After seeing a lack of LGBTQ women represented in local publications, she decided to start a magazine and website to tell stories, provide resources, and create events. This year, Tagg Magazine celebrates ten years of telling thousands of stories, creating safe-spaces for queer women, and providing important resources for the LGBTQ community. Over the past four years, Tagg Magazine has been named “Top 25 LGBTQ-Owned Companies” by the Washington Business Journal. Eboné was recently featured in Forbes Magazine as an "Inspiring Black Entrepreneur Changing Our World." And that's exactly her mission: To create change and leave a stamp on this world. One of those stamps includes starting a student group for LGBTQ people of color while attending University of Maryland College Park. Eighteen years later the group is still going strong. ​She has produced such events as the annual Capital Queer Prom giving the older LGBTQ community a second-chance prom, Capital Pride Women’s Events, Pride in the Sky, and Put on the Gloves Fashion Show benefitting The Trevor Project, just to name a few. These events have raised over $50,000 for LGBTQ non-profit organizations. She continues her community work by serving on the board of the Equality Chamber Foundation, an organization providing financial awareness and economic opportunity to LGBTQ-owned businesses. In 2018, Eboné founded the Tagg Scholarship Fund—a scholarship created specifically for young, queer, women of color who can’t afford to attend school. In addition to running a queer women’s publication, she shares her knowledge and passion as a keynote speaker at conferences, schools, and events across the country.

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  Danielle St James

  Chief Exec
  Not A Phase

  Dani is an influential figure in the LGBTQ+ community. She has collectively amassed over 50k followers on social media and was recognised in this year’s Attitude Magazine as one of their LGBTQ Trailblazers https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/attitude-101-empowered-by-bentley-meet-the-lgbtq-trailblazers-changing-the-world-425064/ She is a sought after speaker, activist, model and designer having been involved with numerous campaigns throughout her career including most recently for Nike, Orient Express and Playful Promises. Not A Phase is a registered charity, founded in 2020 in response to the huge challenges trans+ people currently face in the UK. You can check it out here: www.notaphase.org. The charity has a strong social media following (20.1k on Instagram) and as a trans-led organisation for trans adults it is very well regarded by the community. It recently launched its first marketing campaign - this is Not a Phase which you can read about here: https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/31/on-trans-day-of-visibility-remember-our-identities-are-not-a-phase-18532150/

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