Our Team

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    Emily King - Founder

    Founder of The C Word Magazine, Emily is currently living in London. She is passionate about art, travel, culture, cinema, fashion, sports, feminism and a whole lot more. She is currently working on her own podcast with a friend and also dabbles in graphic design, when not doing her day job as an Associate Director of Media Planning. Find her on Instagram @emlrking or chatting on Confession Sessions, The C Word Mag’s own podcast.

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    Mary Raftopoulos - Editor

    Mary Raftopoulos started This is Impt during lockdown as a way to help highlight the racism we face everyday in the UK. She wanted to continue the conversation that the Black Lives Matter movement started and the discussion about racism in the UK. Speaking up and being vulnerable is something she has always shied away from on social media but she hopes these conversations help people understand the Black British experience.

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    Sam Bell - Marketing Director

    Sam Bell is a woman from London. She loves eating, drinking, cooking, socialising (only in six man pods at the moment), and keeping fit and healthy. You can often find her devouring a cheese board with a glass of wine in hand. Find her on Instagram @samanthabe11 or chatting on The C Word Mag’s podcast, Confession Sessions.

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    Hendrike Rahtz - Editor

Our Contributors