Rebekah Pierre

Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced author and campaigner, and deputy director of the charity Article 39, which campaigns for the rights of children in institutional settings. She has written extensively about the care system, and has appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Independent, and on BBC Radio 4 among others. Rebekah has drawn upon her lived experience to expose wider policy failures. Her peer-reviewed journal, 'Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the...See more

Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced author and campaigner, and deputy director of the charity Article 39, which campaigns for the rights of children in institutional settings. She has written extensively about the care system, and has appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Independent, and on BBC Radio 4 among others. Rebekah has drawn upon her lived experience to expose wider policy failures. Her peer-reviewed journal, 'Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Setting', is the first-known auto-ethnographic paper to feature childhood diary extracts written in the care of the state. She is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices through the arts. See less