Gina Miller — Campaigning for change

The past few years have not been easy for Gina Miller. As an anti-Brexit activist, she received so much online abuseHass und Hetze im Internetonline abuse that she needed security protection. This hasn’t slowed her down, however. In 2025, Miller campaignhier: kandidierencampaigned to become Cambridge University’s first female chancellorKanzler(in)chancellor — while having chemotherapy for an aggressive form of cancerKrebscancer. The 60-year-old British-Guyanese businesswoman was asked by Cambridge professors if she’d stand for sth.hier: für etw. kandidierenstand for the role but initially said no. “I told them I wasn’t interested in take sth. onetw. übernehmentaking on a ceremonial role,” she told The Guardian. “I only want to do something that has a real have an impacthier: etw. bewirkenimpact because I think our country, and the world in fact, is at a particularly traumatic time in history.” Later, however, she changed her mind. “I decided I would throw one's hat in the ringkandidierenthrow my hat in the ring,” she said.

Fighting for fairness

She didn’t become chancellor, but Miller has enough to keep her busy. In 2020, she started MoneyShe, an initiative to help women manage their finances. Data shows that 43 per cent of UK women aren’t comfortable making investment decisions, while over half don’t feel they have enough for retirement.

Miller is well known in the UK for campaigning against Brexit, even taking Theresa May’s government to take sb. to courtjmdn. vor Gericht bringencourt. Miller wanted Britain’s parliament to vote on sth.über etw. abstimmenvote on the decision to trigger sth.etw. auslösentrigger Article 50, which is the legal process of leaving the EU. When asked what she expected politicians to do, Miller simply said “their job”. The Supreme CourtOberster GerichtshofSupreme Court agreed, deciding that the parliament should have a say over triggering Article 50. In 2019, Miller called it a win for ­democracy and the rule of lawRechtsstaatlichkeitrule of law.

After the decision, the online abuse against Miller became even more intense, but she has been through plenty of difficult times before. When Miller was still a child, she was sent away from her home in Guyana, a former British colony in South America, to go to school in England. To help pay for her own education, Miller worked as a chambermaidZimmermädchenchambermaid. She stopped studying lawhier: Juralaw at university after she was rape sb.jmdn. vergewaltigenraped. When she was 24, she had a daughter who has grown up with severe learning difficulties. As a single mother, ­Miller lived in a one-bedroom flat and worked as a marketing and events manager for BMW for nine years ­before starting her own financial-services marketing agencyAgenturagency.

She hopes to inspire other women. “I have to carry on doing sth.mit etw. weitermachencarry on fighting, because it can’t become a normalized thought patternMusterpattern in our society that a woman of ­colour is not brighthier: klugbright enough, can’t make her own ­money, can’t be successful,” she said on a podcast.