Age: 21
Where are you from originally? Felinheli
When not doing Plaid Ifanc work, how do you spend your time?
I love reading - novels, poetry volumes, anything, really! But my real passion is to write creatively - prose or poetry!
You’re hosting a special dinner and you get to invite any four people in the history of the world to join you. Who are the four and why?
Difficult question! I would have to choose Dafydd ap Gwilym. He was one of Europe’s greatest poets who was writing in a period where Wales had just lost its independence and was at a real intersection! Secondly, Saunders Lewis. He’s a character that I have come across so often since studying at university, and was such a controversial character. I never agreed with him - but the conversation would certainly be fun! Jennie Eirian Davies would be there - perhaps one of the party’s forgotten women. She was Plaid’s first female candidate in Carmarthen, and she was also very productive in literature circles. Finally -Nain. She would put the other three in their place, and bring a lot of fun to the night!
Why Plaid?
Scotland was about to vote in the 2014 Independence Referendum when I joined. That hope was an incentive, no doubt - but there was also a good dose of despair! UKIP had been experiencing huge successes in the European Parliamentary Elections’ a couple of months earlier, and some unpleasant politics started to become part of the mainstream debate in Britain. In the midst of the hope in Scotland, and talk of Britain “getting its independence back” I felt that Wales was invisible. I saw myself getting vocal on Twitter and thinking to myself: well why don’t you get up and do something about it?! And here I am, a member for almost 4 years!
