Fold Woman

Our founder and CEO Polly McMaster discusses the future for women at work with an inspiring new group of Fold Women. They tell us more about their career journeys, their attitudes towards style and their thoughts on the challenges – and possibilities – ahead.

After more than two decades on our screens, June Sarpong has become one of the most recognisable faces on British TV. The presenter, author and diversity campaigner talks about her working-class upbringing, reinventing her career and making ‘lucrative lemonade’.

Activist Farhana Yamin has spent her career fighting the climate crisis. One of the world’s top environmental lawyers, she is widely credited with getting the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 into the Paris Agreement. She shares her powerful story.

Baroness Helena Morrissey has forged an extraordinary career as a financier, gender equality advocate and now style influencer – all while raising nine children. She gets honest about the setbacks, sexism and her ‘superwoman’ status.

Meet the ‘Golden Girl’ of British sports. Olympic athlete, TV presenter and Team England president Denise Lewis OBE shares the highs and lows that have shaped her career.

Global make-up artist Ruby Hammer MBE has gone from working on haute couture catwalks to co-founding cosmetics brand Ruby & Millie to launching an eponymous capsule collection. She tells us about style secrets, bad deals and the moment she ground to a halt.

Noëlla Coursaris Musunka’s career has taken her from the catwalk to classrooms in the Congo. The model and philanthropist tells us about her Malaika foundation and her mission to empower girls in Africa.

Dr Merritt Moore has shattered stereotypes by pursuing a dual career as a professional ballet dancer and a quantum physicist. Next stop: (hopefully) the moon.

Entrepreneur, campaigner and philanthropist Gina Miller has spent a lifetime fighting injustice. Despite discrimination, domestic violence and death threats, she will not be silenced. She tells us her powerful story.

From furniture-maker and sculptor to jeweler and painter, London-based designer Simone Brewster tells us about her genre-busting career and why she’s playing the long game.

Russian neuroscientist and former fashion model Dr Irina Higgins taught herself to code when she was 11, using a friend’s computer to build her own games. Now she builds artificial intelligence systems that can outperform the human brain.