International Women’s Day 2026: ‘Give To Gain’

Bio; Sarah P Corbett is an award-winning activist, author and Founding Director of the global Craftivist Collective. Born into an activist family in Everton: fourth most deprived ward in the UK. A professional campaigner most recently with Oxfam GB. Corbett founded the Craftivist Collective in 2009 to engage non-activists and influential target audiences globally to deliver what she coined ‘Gentle Protest’ tactics. Her pioneering work has directly helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Corbett works with national charities such as Save the Children, Mind and The Climate Coalition amongst others, creates bespoke events for museums and and galleries such as Tate, V&A, Maker Faire USA as well as collaborates with unusual allies such as Secret Cinema to reach new and nervous audiences to activism. Her craftivism campaign with ShareAction directly led to Marks and Spencer paying the real Living Wage to 50,000 staff – Corbett received The Economic Justice Campaigner of the Year Award for this from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation and became a lifelong Ashoka Fellow. WWF used Corbett’s 10-point manifesto to create their own successful craftivism campaign that led to a change in law to protect migrating birds. Corbett co-created the new Girlguiding Craftivism badge (2018), has exhibited in Stockholm (2015), Helsinki Design Week (2016) and with Designmuseum Denmark (2023-2024). Sarah was included in the Crafts Council 2018 ‘Power List’ and her TEDx speech ‘Activism Needs Introverts’ was chosen as a TED Talk Of The Day with over a 1.2million views so far. For her services in design activism and public engagement Goldsmiths, University of London granted Corbett an Honorary Fellowship in July 2022. She is a Brother at the Art Workers Guild in 2023, a trained Service Designer at The Royal College of Art and a member of Brian Eno’s Hard Art Collective.