Chris Ash is the Survivor Leadership Program Manager at the National Survivor Network, where they are developing programming to empower people with lived experience to engage meaningfully as the movement’s organisational, strategy, and thought leaders. Their interdisciplinary graduate degree focused on gender studies, postcolonial theory, and sociology, and they have over a decade of experience working in movements to end violence. They co-authored Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience with Sophie Otiende, and are a contributing author to We Name It So We Can Repair It: Rethinking Harm, Accountability, and Repair in the Anti-trafficking Sector (forthcoming, April 2023).