[okfn-discuss] On Being Gremlin Free and A Proper Hello

[Lucy Chambers]

That's definitely one of the best intro emails I've seen in a long
time. Welcome Meg, we're really happy to have you on board!





On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Meg Foulkes <meg.foulkes at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone: just a note to let you know that the evil cyber gremlins that
> have been plaguing me lately have now officially gone, so I should be
> receiving all mail OK. I thought I should say a little to introduce myself
> properly, now I'm up and running!
>
> I'm very pleased to be here at OKFN. After studying English at Cambridge, I
> temped in quite a random fashion for some time (most random, definitely,was
> my time as administrator for a warehouse which dispatched reconditioned
> artificial limbs for the NHS. I will never forget the enormous piles of arms
> and legs waiting to go out!).
>
> In 2004, I started working an Immigration Detention Centre (basically a
> prison) near Cambridge, initially in the admin. office of a legal NGO
> (inside the centre compound), which provided advice and representation to
> those seeking asylum in the UK. After studying for a legal accreditation in
> my spare time, I then became a legal representative for the Refugee Legal
> Centre. My job was to take my client's story, often including experiences of
> torture, and my role necessitated a fair deal of ad-hoc counselling. I then
> spoke as advocate at their on-site hearing with the Home Office, before they
> were often bundled in the back of a van for deportation at Heathrow.
>
> On another note, this prison was where I met my would-be husband. I left the
> RLC when government funding cuts led to redundancies. I now live in Fulham,
> west London with our two children. I am a published poet and have read at
> several conferences of contemporary poetry. I have a strong interest in the
> work of the OKFN and hope to become a useful part of your team. Bear with me
> whilst I get up to speed!
>
> Meg  x
>
> --
> Meg Foulkes
> Foundation Administrator
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://okfn.org/
> Skype: megfoulkes
>
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