Anikka Weerasinghe knew she always wanted to write, but had too many things to say to keep inside any particular box. She always wanted to make some kind of difference but didn’t know where to begin. Originally from the Great White North, Anikka attended Montreal’s McGill University and pursued her BA with concentrations in both International Relations and Cultural Studies. She spent those four years and the ones since trying to figure out how to forge these two fields into one.
Working in diverse fields such as fashion marketing, communications, and the non-profit sector, she came to the realization that often the best way to impact people was not through lofty political ideals or policy change, but rather through education in the everyday.
Since this discovery, she has picked up her bags and moved across the Atlantic where she is currently pursuing an MSc. in Politics and Communications at the London School of Economics. She is also a freelance writer, who regularly writes for the political arts blog Art Threat. When not writing, Anikka spends her time wandering through galleries, immersing herself in urban culture, travelling and watching films—the more obscure the better.
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Marta Cooper sits somewhere between poet and aspiring journalist/author with a passion for travel, underground music, languages, literature and alternative and community media. She hails from Cambridge (the first one, not MA), by way of Italy. She migrated to the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2005, where she studied African and South Asian history and also dabbled in Portuguese.
Since graduating in 2008, she has worked for the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum in West London, co-edited a journal for a youth-led social policy think tank, and interned at both openDemocracy and Untold London.
Still not quite sick of studying yet, Marta is pursuing an MSc in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Before heading off to Shanghai in September for the second year at Fudan University, Marta will be spending a month in Brazil researching alternative and community media in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
