Philippa trained as a news reporter and spent 10 years working on regional and national newspapers in the UK and the US. She now works as the In-House Journalist for IFES. Her main project is “Stories of Influence” – interviewing people from around the world about their time in an IFES movement at university, and the impact it has had on the life they live now. In her 20s Philippa helped write a dictionary in rural Cote d’Ivoire. She is married to a vicar and has three children.