Draft:Bobbi Pickard

Bobbi Pickard is a British Human rights and LGBTQIA+ rights campaigner. She is the founder of Trans in the City, a UK based not for profit organisation championing equality for trans and non-binary people in business around the world. She was the first openly trans person to close the London Stock exchange, is a patron of the LGBTQIA+ parents charity FFLAG and a Golden champion of the LGBTQIA+ homelessness charity Stonewall Housing. In the past she has been a trustee for Mermaids and an ambassador for MindOut. She has raised several hundred thousand pounds for Trans Charities since 2016.

Accolades and Awards
In 2019 Pickard was included in PWC's Stonewall 50 Inspirational Role Models List, was #1 in the Yahoo Finance OUTstanding 50 LGBT+ Future Leaders’ List and received the Rainbow Honours LGBTQ Champion Award

In 2020 saw Pickard become British LGBT Awards Nestle Diversity Champion, place #4 in the Yahoo Finance OUTstanding 50 LGBT+ Future Leaders’ List and #14 in the Pride Power List

In 2021, Pickard was named Diversity Hero at the European Diversity Awards, and placed #12 in the Pride Power List

Pickard was named Stonewall Changemaker of the Year in 2022.

Personal Life
Pickard knew she was trans at a very young age and struggled for many years with suicide attempts. She first came out to friends in 1991  however it wasn’t until 2016 that she was able to medically transition.