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Jesimiel Akinsuyi is a second year Natural Sciences student in Homerton College at the University of Cambridge. She is someone who wears many “hats” in her day-to-day life, she is the director of marketing for a Youth-led organisation and Platform called “United Nations association Youth Parliament- UK” or UNAYP-UK for short, she is also an avid reader and has recently started uploading and postin...

Jesimiel Akinsuyi is a second year Natural Sciences student in Homerton College at the University of Cambridge. She is someone who wears many “hats” in her day-to-day life, she is the director of marketing for a Youth-led organisation and Platform called “United Nations association Youth Parliament- UK” or UNAYP-UK for short, she is also an avid reader and has recently started uploading and postin...

Freddie Fisk is a history graduate and former Cambridge Union President. He is currently training to be a solicitor in London. His interests include: cycling (clumsily), politics, architecture, cheese/wine and getting excited about the Elizabeth Line. "Great at choosing interesting questions, easy company and lovely coffee - thoroughly enjoyed being interviewed by David!" - Freddie --- W...

Freddie Fisk is a history graduate and former Cambridge Union President. He is currently training to be a solicitor in London. His interests include: cycling (clumsily), politics, architecture, cheese/wine and getting excited about the Elizabeth Line. "Great at choosing interesting questions, easy company and lovely coffee - thoroughly enjoyed being interviewed by David!" - Freddie --- W...

Anna Piper-Thompson is an English student at Clare College, Cambridge,  runs her YouTube channel APThompson, focused on accessibility and demystifying Cambridge. This is really important to her, as is disability access and gender equality, so she was the Disability Intersectionality Officer for the ‘Cambridge Our Streets Now’ campaign, has spoken at secondary schools about University applications,...

Linn Tengvall is a Goldman Sachs Asset Management summer intern studying Philosophy and English Literature at Durham. She is a small business owner, lover of deep conversations, nature and her cat. She would describe herself as somewhat of a walking juxtaposition, being a bubbly, social, lover of alone time; a creative academic and ultimately disconnected to her Swedish mother tongue with the cons...

Mike Hood grew up in Warwickshire, before studying English Literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he now lives with his wife Rachael. He is an amateur spoken word poet and was a finalist in the UK poetry slam at the Royal Albert Hall, and he has worked since graduating trying to help people ask and find answers to the biggest questions about the meaning of life and God, first with universi...

Mike Hood grew up in Warwickshire, before studying English Literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he now lives with his wife Rachael. He is an amateur spoken word poet and was a finalist in the UK poetry slam at the Royal Albert Hall, and he has worked since graduating trying to help people ask and find answers to the biggest questions about the meaning of life and God, first with universi...

Linn Tengvall is a Goldman Sachs Asset Management summer intern studying Philosophy and English Literature at Durham. She is a small business owner, lover of deep conversations, nature and her cat. She would describe herself as somewhat of a walking juxtaposition, being a bubbly, social, lover of alone time; a creative academic and ultimately disconnected to her Swedish mother tongue with the cons...

Fortune Isoka-Onwordi is a 1st year Land Economy student at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He grew up in Watford and attended a state school. Having navigated predominately white institutions throughout his life, he have gained a unique experience in the ways  Black people show up in these spaces from academia to the corporate world. Through this, he has learned the importance of having a true know...

Jenni Morris is a 1st year Land Economist at Jesus College, Cambridge, who grew up in many places. Jenni has lived in Hungary, the UK, South Africa, Mali and Tanzania, rarely spending more than a year at each school she attended as a child. In Hungary for her teenage years Jenni developed a passion for rowing, but her experience at a competitive level forced her to quit for mental health reasons....

The anonymous bouncer is a first year HSPS student at Queen’s College. He has previously served as a Cambridge Union Full Committee member on the social media team making (unfunny) TikToks. Since then, he had focused on his work with the TitHaller, as well as balancing his degree with his part time job as a bouncer. When the anonymous bouncer isn’t out attending Pints and Policy with the Labour Cl...

Daisy Tozer is a second-year English student at Trinity Hall (the better Trinity). As a first-gen student from a rural state school, coming to Cambridge for her always seemed like a bit of a pipe dream. Now that she’s here, however (despite the imposter syndrome), she’s loving it and is very keen to improve access. Daisy is Tit Hall’s Co-Class Act officer and has worked as an independent mentor. S...

An actress, singer-songwriter, writer, composer, and director, Hayley Canham studies Classics at Queen’s College, Cambridge University. Her first professional acting role was Matilda in Matilda the Musical at age 9, while her most recent job was a role in the new Halo TV Series on Paramount Plus, released earlier this year.  - Hayley has worked with playwright Sir Tom Stoppard in ‘The Hard Problem...

Anna Morgan is a first year HSPS student at Sidney Sussex, who lives near Brighton. She’s involved with lots of theatrical and musical pursuits at Cambridge, like directing plays and singing jazz and is a choral scholar at Sidney. Head of Speech at Cam FM and co-hosting a radio show called Chatbridge, Anna is starting a new debate themed show this term. She also is an Ents officer for Sidney JCR –...

Mizanur Rahman is a 2nd year Historian at King’s College. He grew up in London’s East End in the borough of Tower Hamlets. He is currently the Co-Chair of King’s Politics, the largest politics society at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with his team to plan and execute 50+ events which featured numerous prominent names, from Lord Sumption and Lord Neuberger to Noam Chomsky and Jacob Ree...

Chirath Lekamge is the School Captain of St Peter’s College, Adelaide, South Australia, during the College’s 175th Anniversary in 2022. Having moved around rural Victoria during primary school, Chirath joined the College in 2016. Having graduated from St Peter’s, affectionately called ‘Saints’, in 2021, Chirath accepted an offer to study Medicine at the University of Adelaide - an offer he deferre...

Lizzie Davy a first-year law student at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She grew up in rural Norfolk, and has enjoyed exchanging a bedroom view of fields for a view of the River Cam. She campaigns for greater awareness about mental health, and has worked with multiple secondary schools to initiate improvement in welfare support. She runs an influential TikTok account focused on recovering from mental...

Guanting Di is a 1st year law student at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Guanting is the only mainland Chinese undergraduate studying law and is one of the few international undergraduates who attended a state school in China. At Cambridge, he is the Queens’ JCR International Officer and the Legal Officer for Cambridge University Education Development Trust. He used to engage with local governments in...

Umair Ahmad is a 1st year engineering student at Clare College, Cambridge, and is social secretary for the Union of Clare Students (or UCS as it is affectionally known here). As a practicing Muslim, he is trying to create a better perception of Islam in the western context. He is one of the admins of the wildly popular Instagram account @clare_incellectuals, on which they publish memes and through...

Abdullah Khan is an architecture finalist at Clare College, Cambridge. He grew up in London, in the shadow of a changing skyline.  He has published a fantasy novel called 'The Faces', which is set here at the University of Cambridge. He illustrated it and that is available at Waterstones and Heffers. He enjoys many creative pursuits, including being head of design for St Johns’ College M...

Lily McGrail is an MPhil student in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion on the Religion and Conflict Pathway at King’s College, University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Lily is involved in the Cambridge Union as a guest liaison and garden party vice president, and she is a social secretary in the King’s College Graduate Society. She did her BA in Government at Georgetown University in Was...

Jack Wu studies Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He leads the Cambridge Student Investment fund with over 100k in assets; is an avid sportsman and musician, enjoying piano, violin, cycling, and badminton, which he plays for the University, and was previously part of a junior national high-performance team; and also happens to be my college husband. --- WHY? COFFEE'S ON ME, DAVID...

Lilla Bond is an MPhil student studying Geography at Clare College, Cambridge. She has had a fascinating educational journey, growing up in the UK near Birmingham, completing the IB Diploma, then doing a 4-year undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, including a 6-month exchange at the University of Hong Kong. Whilst in University, she founded the inclusive...

Tim Tian studies Music at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Born in Qingdao, China, Tim went to boarding school in Uppingham, UK. Interestingly, I met Tim and his friends Anna, Maria, and Cameran, as they floated past Clare bridge close to midnight on a dinghy last June. We waved... and the rest is history. Tim is well-known for his passion and prowess of music, notably playing the Bassoon, Saxophone,...