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HELEN PANKHURST (Born 1964)

Dr Helen Pankhurst is an activist, writer and blogger. Pankhurst is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the British suffragette movement. Pankhurst is currently CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia.

Early life and education

Pankhurst was raised in Sylvia’s house in Ethiopia. Growing up she felt guided by her grandmother towards work in international development and women’s rights.

Career

Pankhurst has a social science PhD from Edinburgh University and also studied at Sussex University and Vassar College, New York.

Pankhurst is passionate about continuing the legacy started by her grandmother and great-grandmother.

She was trustee of Water Aid, Farm Africa and is currently a trustee of Action Aid.

Personal life

Pankhurst is the great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, and granddaughter of Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, campaigner for the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of historian Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst and librarian Rita Pankhurst, her brother is Alula Pankhurst. Suffragette leaders Christabel and Adela were her great-aunts.

In popular culture

At the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, Pankhurst appeared alongside her daughter. The pair have since formed a group called Olympic Suffragettes, which campaigns on a number of women's rights issues, including international women's day marches.

Pankhurst had a cameo role in the film Suffragette alongside her daughter.