Sabah Choudrey, Marty Davis and Gray Burke-Stowe explore key factors for inclusive community building.
At We Create Space, we see the transformative power of community every single day. For organisations striving to build a more inclusive, engaged, and thriving workplace, we believe community-building isn’t just a solution. It’s the foundation.
Our ‘Community Building 101' series explores key factors for successful community development, providing actionable strategies and tools to promote effective change, collective learning, workplace culture and shared values. We will also discuss how grassroots principles can be applied in corporate settings, through three key pillars: Inclusion, Wellbeing, & Leadership.
Our first session is in collaboration with QueerAF & Trans+ History Week - a trans-led grassroots non-profit initiative, calendar event & movement dedicated to giving us ‘the Trans+ history lesson we never had’ through storytelling & content created by Trans+ campaigners, historians, creatives & professionals. With the core messaging ‘Trans+ people have always been here’, it's approaching its second year, from 5 - 11 May, following a successful launch in 2024 with national media coverage, global engagement & a community that felt seen & celebrated.
This event celebrates the launch of the recently released Trans+ History Week 2025 Workbook, which was produced by QueerAF who this year mentored five Trans+ creatives to produce it. The workbook empowers, inspires, and help organisations create their own content and events.
You’ll hear about it’s historical lessons, as well as tangible insights & learnings around queer leadership and the importance of key considerations like ongoing education and research, collecting data & feedback, to build inclusive communities.
Speakers:
Marty Davies is a proud attention-seeker. She is an award-winning creative strategist, campaigner, writer, advertising industry thought-leader and changemaker. An expert at the point where LGBTQIA+ history and culture and the creative industries and attention economy meet. They are Campaign’s first transgender columnist and have written extensively on the state of queer representation in advertising - shortlisted for columnist of the year. Marty led Outvertising’s call for brands to stand their ground during Pride month in 2023 and gained a commitment from the top 10 media agencies (representing £6.9Bn.) to divest adspend from misinformation in the media. They are the founder of creative strategy consultancy Smarty Pants Consultancy and the founder of Trans+ History Week CIC - a new globally recognised week in the calendar to celebrate the momentous and millennia old history of trans+ people. They were named on both the DIVA Power List and Pride Power List in 2024 and were named one of PinkNews’ 21 global activists of 2023.
Sabah Choudrey is an award-winning reluctant activist on most things trans, brown and hairy. TEDx speaker, writer and psychotherapist. Sabah co-founded Trans Pride Brighton and made The Rainbow List, celebrating 101 of the most influential LGBT people in Britain. Sabah has built a presence across Europe, speaking at ILGA Europe, IDAHOT Brussels, Malmö Pride about intersectionality and identity. With 10 years of experience in trans youth work, currently a Director of Colours Youth Network supporting LGBTQ POC young people and Director of Middlesex Pride. Current Vice-Chair at the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, dedicated to creating inclusive, safer places for marginalised Muslims. Proud author of 'Supporting Trans People of Colour: How To Make Your Practice Inclusive.' Based in West London, their passions also include fostering cats and talking to houseplants.
If you would like to discuss booking one of these speakers for your own session, please get in touch with us via email at hello@wecreatespace.co
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