The First 100 Years team, who inspired our project, gifted the University of Glasgow this incredible portrait collage Madge Easton Anderson, made up of 100 women in the legal sector. It is an incredible way to commemorate Madge’s memory, whilst also celebrating the current and future women in the legal profession. Thank you!
To mark the formal conclusion of the 100 Voices for 100 Years project, we commissioned a special animation and poem, inspired by the collective accomplishments of the First 100 Years of women in law. With thanks to Ashurst and Dentons for their generous sponsorship of this animated film.
Poet: Holly McKenna (Author of ‘Sisters-in-Law and ‘Sisters-in-Solidarity’). Read Holly’s contribution to our voices and biography here.
Narrator: Karen Fishwick
Animator: Clarissa Hanekom
The Knitting Our Legal Heritage project, which was a collaboration of the Glasgow Law School Craft Collective and friends to knit a blanket representing the first 100 women to graduate in law
Our creative workshops are focussed on interpreting our research on Madge Easton Anderson into creative expressions. This included the creation of scripts around various scenarios Anderson and her peers would have faced in navigating the legal profession of the 1920s. More to come!
Where’s the diversity? The first, the few and the future event was held in June 2022 in collaboration with Diversity+.
Our keynote speaker was Naeema Yaqoob Sajid. Naeema is the founder of Diversity+, an organisation at the forefront of improving Diversity across the Scottish Legal and Financial Sector. She is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in the legal sector. She has experience in both public and private organisations, and is formerly a partner of a top ten Scottish law firm. Naeema is also a co-founder of The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers Association (SEMLA).
The keynote was followed by a panel discussion featuring speakers including Brianella Scott, Karla Perez Portilla, and Amanjit Uppal.
This event was expertly captured in the below graphic recording by Sarah Ahmad.
