<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Ash says that “empowering and showing that we exist is the first step to being seen as equal”.&nbsp; She wanted to encourage and support fellow women in the industry but she struggled to find any woman making their own skateboards. In response, she set out to reclaim skateboards for women by producing the decks herself. Her workshops are intended to get women involved with creating their own graphics on skateboards; putting their own messages into the world. This is a form of personal protest and an effort to outnumber the bad graphics that exist.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Ash’s projects were kind of different from the rest of the 2020 ROLL Models. Despite some of them using art and creative activities in their programmes, Ash highlighted the creative aspect as the main topic.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span><em><span>“It was really cool to be part of the [ROLL Models] project. My project was to make five women build up a skateboard. It was about teaching women how to build a skateboard and also how to ride it as well.” </span></em></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>She was planning to do an in-person workshop in the factory that she usually works in but finally, due to Covid-19 restrictions, she had to adapt the methodology into the new circumstances. She first organized three online workshops to initiate the project with five women and each one created their own skateboard.&nbsp; She tracked the progress of the designs and took photos at the end with each of their designs on their boards. The final step of her ROLL Models project was to create a short documentary about her passion for making skateboard decks and to show the whole process in order to empower other women skaters who want to learn. She filmed it in </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://bigayeskateboards.co.uk/"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Big-Aye</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>’s workshop, showing each step of the building process of a skate deck and finally she made an amazing must-see </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHXcant9214"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>video-tutorial</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
