1. Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and human rights campaigner of Indian Zoroastrian origin.
12 Facts About Zerbanoo Gifford
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Zerbanoo Gifford is honorary director of the ASHA Foundation, which she founded, and President of the World Zoroastrian Organisation.
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Zerbanoo Gifford was educated at Roedean School, at Watford College of Technology, at the London School of Journalism and at the Open University.
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Zerbanoo Gifford has been a director of Anti-Slavery International and of the Charities Aid Foundation.
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Zerbanoo Gifford is founder of the ASHA Foundation and the ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean.
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In 1982 Zerbanoo Gifford was elected a councillor for Harrow, the first female Asian councillor to be elected for the Liberal Party.
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Zerbanoo Gifford has stood three times for Parliament, Hertsmere in 1983 and 1992, and Harrow East in 1987.
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Zerbanoo Gifford was twice elected by the party's membership the Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive, the first ethnic minority person to be elected to a major UK party's supreme body.
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Zerbanoo Gifford was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by then Home Secretary, Jack Straw.
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In 1992 Zerbanoo Gifford co-chaired the centenary celebrations for the election of the first non-white MP, Dadabhai Naoroji.
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Zerbanoo Gifford was nominated for the Women of Europe Award in 1991.
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Zerbanoo Gifford was one of the seven former pupils who featured in Roedean school's 125 anniversary celebrations.