Sally Gimson is Labour councillor for Highgate ward in Camden. She sits on Camden Council’s planning and housing committees and is the borough’s Equality Champion. Sally works as a freelance media and policy consultant. Until September 2011 Sally was Head of Public Policy at Victim Support, and she was previously Director of Communications at the Family and Parenting Institute. Sally’s background is in journalism, and she has worked for the Observer and the Sunday Telegraph and was a news producer at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin.