I am Phoebe Ruth Marsh and I started PRM Consultancy in 2023, seeing a need for individual, bespoke intersectional consultancy approaches, and driven by my early awareness of class struggles and a desire for equality and justice. Growing up in the working-class town in southern England, I developed a nuanced and holistic approach to consulting on intersectionality-based issues.
My extensive personal, professional, and educational background underscores the interconnectedness of intersectional issues. Intersectional issues cannot be separated, nor targeted individually, they need to be addressed simultaneously, and their connection to one another acknowledged. My empathetic yet practical approach, coupled with my expertise in various fields, aims to help Dutch organisations and institutions embrace and implement intersectionality-driven practices through PRM Consultancy.
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I am extremely grateful at the moment to be working on a number of projects, collaborating with organisations and community groups, consulting for the Amsterdam Gemeente, NOS, Ministry of Justice, and De Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken.
I have Master’s in Gender Violence and Conflict and Bachelors’ Degree In Anthropology and International Development from the University of Sussex, the best university in the world for Development Studies. In my undergrad studies, I explored intersectional issues globally, especially colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy. I received several scholarships from the university to:
Speak at Model UN in New York 2019 to Speak on gender and violence issues.
Attend summer school at Renmin University in Beijing, studying the history of Chinese “comfort women'' during the Japanese occupation in WWII.
Attend Mahidol University in Bangkok 2019-2020 to study humanities for two terms.
While studying in Thailand, COVID-19 pandemic surged and Phoebe bore witness to two countries' different approaches to addressing the Pandemic (Thailand and the United Kingdom), giving me insight into how pandemics exacerbate already present discrimination and exclusion of marginalised groups. This exclusion of marginalised groups led me into sex worker labour-based and human-rights-based activism, the stigma sex workers encounter and how the legislation of sex work globally impacts gender, race/ethnicity, disability and other intersectional-based rights.
In my master’s year, I focused academically on sex worker activism, redlight districts and sex worker-inclusive policy, my extracurricular activities include student representative for her cohort, curating events for 15 days against gender-based violence, co-organising the gender and disability in Africa online conference, and engaging in activism for better disability, sexual assault, queer services and support on campus. My research spans numerous global issues. I received Turing and Pickup scholarships to conduct my dissertation research in the Netherlands, exploring Amsterdam's red-light district and the intersectional factors.
