@christina.adane of @biteback2030 is a 19-year-old activist from south London who has been campaigning for free school meals for the past three years. During the first Covid-19 lockdown, she launched a petition to extend free school meals over half-term to 1.3mn children who would otherwise go hungry. It made headlines, prompted a government U-turn and inspired footballer Marcus Rashford’s efforts to expand the programme further. Now Adane is calling on the government to extend free school meals to the 800,000 children in England who are living in poverty but are not eligible. “It’s about the children that are going to starve this winter.” As the “young, pissed-off person in the room,” Adane believes the biggest strength a young activist can have is the power of their experience. “If I’m talking to an MP and telling them I was on free school meals and I lived in a food desert, it’s hard for [them] to say my experiences are invalid,” she tells @ajesh34 in this weekend’s @fthtsi. “Campaigners like Henry Dimbleby, Jamie Oliver and the Food Foundation have been talking about this subject for the longest time. They tell me it’s always when a young person is in the room to bring the argument alive that it’s impactful.” Pictures by @antonia.adomako