Ione Wells

Activist, Filmmaker, Journalist, Photographer, Writer/Editor

TED Talk speaker at the TED Global Summit 2016: 'How We Talk About Sexual Assault Online.' Journalist, currently at the BBC World Service specialising in stories affecting women around the world. Work published by organisations including the BBC, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Metro, The Independent, Channel 4 News, The Telegraph, The Debrief, The Madurai Messenger, The NUS, The Tab and The AIDS Legal Network Founder of the international #NotGuilty campaign against sexual violence and victim-blaming featured in The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, TIME, BBC, World Bank Group, Channel 4, Elle, Metro, Le Monde, The Guardian's alternative New Year's honours (2015). Before starting university I spent several months working for an NGO called The Aids Legal Network in Cape Town and then worked freelance for a magazine in Tamil Nadu, India. Wrote a thesis on the trolling and uglification of women in the public sphere from 17th century to modern day Twitter. Outside of work interests include climbing mountains, outdoor sports, travel, music, wild swimming, theatre, literature, food & equality. Preferably all at once.

Human rights, environmental issues, women's rights, migration and the refugee crisis, travel, photography and filmmaking, journalism and campaigning against sexual assault.

Activism, Campaigning, English Literature, Journalism

I first delivered a talk at TEDx Thessaloniki in 2016, TEDGlobal in Banff is my first TED conference.

Playing the saxophone