Speakers
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Sandy Kalterborn
Committed to co-creating with communities, visual material and narratives that foster more just and equitable cities, Kaltenborn founded Kotti & Co in 2012 along with members of the Turkish community. Kotti & Co is a tenant movement that looks at changing dysfunctional social housing systems, through stopping rent increases and demanding the repurchasing of social […]
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Festival of the Future City
Anna Kamyshan
Currently, Anna is a research fellow at the Jencks Foundation for Architecture, The Cosmic House in London and Academic Sanctuary Fellow at the UCL.
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Festival of the Future City
Immy Kaur
She is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who work alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. She is also an active member of Project 00, the Resourcing Racial Justice Coalition, and the National Lottery Community Fund Advisory […]
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Jackie Kay
She has published three collections of stories with Picador, Why Don’t You Stop Talking, Wish I Was Here, and Reality, Reality; two poetry collections, Fiere and Bantam; and her memoir, Red Dust Road. From 2016 to 2021 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet for Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of […]
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Festival of the Future City
Michael Kenny
Before he arrived in Cambridge, Michael held positions at Queen’s University, Belfast; the University of Sheffield, where he was appointed Head of the Department of Politics; and Queen Mary University of London, where he was the inaugural Director of the Mile End Institute. He is the author of Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to […]
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Festival of Economics
Emily Kenway
She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian, Independent, OpenDemocracy, Huffington Post, Litro and TLS. In 2023, she released Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It. Her non-fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2020 she was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. […]
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Festival of Ideas
Leslie Kern
Kern’s research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. She is also an award-winning teacher. Kern’s writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vox, Bloomberg CityLab, LitHub, and Refinery29. She is also an academic career coach, where she helps academics find meaning and joy in their […]
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Festival of Economics
Mehreen Khan
Khan spent five years in Brussels from 2017-2022 breaking exclusive agenda-setting news on the EU’s Brexit talks, budget negotiations, environmental regulation, pandemic policy response, and foreign policy. She authored the daily Brussels Briefing newsletter for the Financial Times and is a regular contributor to the BBC, Al Jazeera, EUScream podcast, In Our Times, and Times […]
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Colin Ward
Ruth Kinna
She is a political theorist and historian of ideas with research interests in anarchism, nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist thought, utopianism and contemporary radicalism. She is co-editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.
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Festival of Economics
Julia Kirby-Smith
Prior to running the BFT network, Julia founded, grew and sold a sustainable food business called Fridge of Plenty, which still operates a shop in North London and sells online. She also has a background in broadcast journalism and strategic communications, and is a Trustee of the campaigning food charity Feedback.
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Bristol Ideas
Vanessa Kisuule
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles including the Roundhouse Slam 2014, Hammer and Tongue National Slam 2014 and the Nuyorican Poetry Slam. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Blue Peter and TEDx in Vienna. She has been invited to perform […]
