COVID-19 has underlined both the challenges faced in Cambridge and the strengths within the community we serve as a council. As a group we are now thinking through what our strategy needs to be over the coming months as we regroup and rebuild.
Alex Collis
Alex Collis is Lead City Councillor for Anti-Poverty and represents Kings Hedges ward in Cambridge. She has previously worked in community development and for food poverty charities, and now represents the city council on the Food Poverty Alliance. Alongside her work as a councillor she is also a non-religious funeral celebrant.
More from Global Dashboard
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
Big Elephants and Small Islands: getting beyond the New Aid Orthodoxy
Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other foundations of this order. The assumptions underpinning aid and its management...
Uncertainty and Humanitarian Action: What Donald Rumsfeld can teach us
Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown,...