Emily McChrystal

Restless Development
Women to Watch - Winner

Emily McChrystal (she/they) is a young leader and changemaker who is empowering marginalised young people in the Liverpool City Region and beyond to demand that their voices are heard and enact change in our community. She was pivotal in the establishment and development of Comic Youth’s Marginal Publishing House, the first youth-led publisher of its kind in the UK and has supported the publication of 18 books directly made by marginalised creatives within Merseyside. She was the sole facilitator in the ground-breaking Wealth Shared project to distribute £100k to organisations in L8 and is now a Youth Power Coordinator at Restless Development. Emily has supported +535,000 community members within the UK directly through her campaigning, engagement, and training. Emily has also helped generate just over half a million pounds for the organisations and communities she has worked with through fundraising and bid securing and continues to add to that figure.