Roza Salih
2016
Roza Salih
Location: Glasgow

Roza was one of the Glasgow Girls who capaigned in high school for improvements to the UK Border Agency’s treatment of people seeking asylum, particularly children.
In 2013 she graduated with honours in law and politics from University of Strathclyde, where she was also the Vice-President of Diversity and Advocacy for the Student’s Association. She was elected to the National Union of Students’ International Students Committee and the NUS UK Student trustee board. She is co-founder of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, and recently returned from a trip to Kurdish regions in Turkey as part of a delegation of trade unionists and human rights activists.
She also worked with the Scottish Refugee Council and the Education Strategy Commission to establish funding from Strathclyde University for scholarships specifically for asylum seekers.