Becka White

She/her

Working-class human rights campaigner and writer​

Becka White is a working-class human rights campaigner, researcher and writer from south-east London. She intertwines her lived experience and professional training to speak and write about socio-economic diversity - why it matters and what employers and educators can do about it. In her day job, she works as a researcher and advisor on digital surveillance and online gender-based violence at Amnesty International. Prior to this she worked as communications manager at the London School of Economics' Gender Studies Department.

Becka won a place on New Writing North’s inaugural ‘A Writing Chance’ programme, for writers from working-class backgrounds supported by actor Michael Sheen. She has been published in TES magazine, the New Statesman, and has featured in the BBC Sounds podcast Margins to Mainstream. Becka writes fiction and narrative non-fiction and won a Spread The Word London Writer’s Award in 2022 for under-represented writers. She is working on her first book, a memoir.