Carol Ann Whitehead

Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA is a Royal Society of Arts Fellow.

Director of The Zebra Partnership

She is managing Director of The Zebra Partnership, a Campaign, Events and Publishing Agency. The Zebra Partnership was founded in 2000 and it is a publishing, event and campaign agency. She has experiences in organizing various types of the events up to 8000 attendees. She also managed to organize five royal visits since 2004.[1]

Wiki Editor

She is co-founder and self styled ‘Cyber Suffragette’ of the ADA Lovelace Day. On October 9, on Ada Lovelace Day, Carol Ann organised a "Global Wiki Edit-a-Thon",[2] an initiative to improve the diversity of Wikipedia's articles. This took place in Manchester at The Pankhurst Centre.[3]

Carol Ann has been featured in an EEVT article which aims to work with and focus on organisations that influence change[4]. She was featured in the article for doing 'much for the local community, women and diversity'. In this article, the company explains her roles and her jobs she has done to try and contribute to issues in society. Additionally, Carol Ann was mentioned in the Medium article for 'Unraveling Wikipedia's Mystery over Women's History'[5]. With her work with Wikipedia, she gained a place as a member of the United Nations' Global Goodwill Ambassadors.

Other activities

Carol Ann Whitehead is joint CEO of The People's Hub and the United Nations SDG Action Partner championing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

In November 2019, she was designated Global Goodwill Ambassador.

She is also an Executive Director, Even Higher CIC, Guest Lecturer for Manchester University and committee member for their Empodera Data Latin America Project.

She is a Global Juror for Entreps Award SDG in addition to 5050 Parliament Ambassador.

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References
  1. Taylor, Dijonn (2019-02-04). "Spotlight Business of the Month". Savvy Guest. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  2. "Wiki-edit-a-thon: Writing Women Back into History – UNYA Denmark". Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  3. "Wiki Edit-a-Thon". Digital Science. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  4. "Newsletter and bids 12 2019". EEVT. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  5. Grinberg, David B. (2019-04-25). "Unraveling Wikipedia's Mystery over Women's History". Medium. Retrieved 2020-03-08.



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