Kierra Box

Kierra Box is a 22 year old youth worker from London. She became involved in youth action through the youth press agency Children’s Express (Now Headliners) at 11, before going to to take part in and coordinate a number of youth protests in London and nationally. In 2003 Kierra and friends set up Hands Up For Peace, on of the UK’s foremost youth anti-war movements. Since then, she has gone on to develop the key ideas behind Hands Up into an online resource and community portal for young people, aiming to offer non-directional advice and information to young people interested in doing something amazing. Kierra is a Patron of the NYA and a trustee of the Young People Now Foundation. In 2006 she won a Sheila McKechnie Foundation award for campaigning. Kierra currently works in a local area renewal partnership co-ordinating youth participation activities and provision in the area, while continuing to develop her website at www.handsupfor.org.


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