Young graduate gains MBE
6 January 2010
Rhiannon Holder MBE (BSc 2009)
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Rhiannon Holder (BSc 2009) has become one of the youngest people to be awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List, for services to young people's healthcare. Rhiannon, 22, graduated from Bristol with a first class honours degree in Deaf Studies.
Rhiannon began volunteering aged 15 for the Bread Youth Project in St Werburghs, Bristol, as a sexual health peer educator - she is now one of the charity's trustees.
For three and a half years, Rhiannon also served as the young adviser on the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group. She now works at Bristol's Brook Clinic and for South Gloucestershire Council, educating girls on sexual health and relationships.
I've always been very passionate about young people's health. Just because I've got an MBE doesn't mean I'm going to stop. Teenage pregnancy rates are falling nationally but there is still a lot of work to do to give young people the sex education, clinics and services they need to make informed choices.
Rhiannon Holder (BSc 2009)
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