Former head of The D&AD, and labeled a “Digital female icon” by The Guardian, Laura Jordan Bambach’s legacy is likely to be less about titles and more about her drive to effect change by DOING, rather than just talking about it. Apart from founding Mr President, one of the UK’s most progressive advertising agencies, Laura has also spent most of her life fighting for women in the notoriously patriarchal and misogynistic ad industry. In 2007, she helped set up the SheSays mentoring programme (now 40,000 strong and about to launch in Afghanistan), that encourages women to pursue careers in advertising and design. She is also a founder of the "Cannt Festival", a more practical and grounded version of Cannes. We talk Gillette, Petersen, the current state of feminism and ideas on how we might get out of this looming Climate Catastrophe, which current predictions suggest may be upon us by the end of the next decade.
Links
Laura’s brilliant “Don’t be a dick” speech: https://tinyurl.com/yytbyasy
Her agency: https://www.mrpresident.co/
The SheSays global network for women: https://weareshesays.com/
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Release date: May 10th 2019
Runtime: 42m
Recorded: London
