Julia Tinsley-Kent (she/her) is Campaigns and Communications Advisor at Kalayaan and is currently working to co-found Parallax, a research non-profit that investigates international crimes. Prior to this she has over seven years of experience in non-profit campaigning, policy and communications at the Migrants’ Rights Network, the National Lottery Community Fund and Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. Throughout her career she has worked to explore the intersection of mental ill health with identity and systemic oppression with a particular interest in highlighting discrimination in Western psychiatric practices and its impact on marginalised communities including queer and disabled people.
Julia also works as an artist using her creative practice to explore themes of mental health and emotion through a combination of abstract and traditional mediums.