Stella Creasy

MP and Co Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs

Stella Creasy is the Labour and Co-Operative MP for Walthamstow. She has been an active member of her local community for many years, having served as the Mayor of Waltham Forest as well as a local councillor for a number of years. She has a background in the voluntary sector, helping to set up many youth and community projects in Walthamstow as well as being the Head of Campaigns at the Scout Association before her election in May 2010. Stella has also been involved in the Labour movement for over twenty years and has held many roles including being a local party activist, Young Fabian Society executive, Co-operative Party and Unite member . She undertook her academic research at the London School of Economics and won the Titmuss Prize for her Phd in the psychology of neighbourhood participation.