From Awareness to Action: Lessons on Leadership and Social Impact with Grace Forrest
Join us for a fireside chat with Grace Forrest, Founding Director of Walk Free, exploring one of the most urgent human rights challenges of our time: modern slavery and exploitation in the global economy. This conversation will examine the hidden realities of forced labour, human trafficking, and exploitation across global supply chains, and what governments, businesses, investors, and civil society can do to drive meaningful change.
Speaker Bio:
Grace Forrest is a human rights activist and the Founding Director of Walk Free, an international organisation working to eradicate modern slavery, which affects more than 50 million people globally.
Walk Free produces the Global Slavery Index - the world’s most comprehensive dataset on modern slavery and its government responses in 160 countries.
Grace serves on the Global Commission on Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking, is a UNAA Goodwill Ambassador for Anti-Slavery and was 2021 Young West Australian of the Year.
In 2024, she was honoured with the Roosevelt Foundation’s prestigious Freedom From Fear Award, globally recognising her efforts to end modern slavery.
Moderator Bio:
Leila Isa is a third-year politics student at King’s College. She has been actively involved with student advocacy throughout her undergraduate studies and has previously led Cambridge University Amnesty International. Leila is also the Global Editor of The Cambridge Student, with a focus on the Middle East.
WHEN: Thursday, May 21st 2026
5.30PM - 6.30PM: Fireside Chat in the Provost’s Drawing Room
6.30PM - 7.00PM: Networking and drinks
WHERE: Provost’s Drawing Room, King’s College, Cambridge
TICKETS: Register here.
Please note that there will be photography at this event.
Please also note that this event will take place in a college space during the exam quiet period. We kindly ask that you are mindful of students preparing for their exams and keep noise to a minimum when arriving, departing, and moving around the venue.