Episode #
119
Julia Lynch
Episode Summary
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
Nepal
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
I grew up in a family with a Jamaican father who was quite strict and patriarchal with a lot of sexist ideas about my role as a woman and my power as a woman. And that really spurred me on in many different ways to challenge what what was expected of me. Fast forward many years, I am now running an international charity that really focuses on the mobilisation of the most marginalised girls in the Global South, to find their voice, to connect with their voice, to know what it sounds like, and then to learn how to use it to create the change that they want to see in their own communities.
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
Capoeira, which is an Afro Brazilian martial art.
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
Himalaya Mountains
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
A young women who grew up in an isolated village with no running water or power. She went on one of our programmes and started engaging her village in conversations around early marriage which was a big issue in the village. Before long 70 or 80 people attended and then other local villages opened up with further conversations around the issue. Global Girl Project has been walking alongside her in her ambition to go to University and eventually become a Lawyer.
Q6: Insight
As we prepare to re-enter, what insight, wisdom or question would you like to share with us?
The need for us to let go of control.
