Our Team

  • Emily King - Founder

    Founder of The C Word Magazine, Emily is currently living in London. She is passionate about art, travel, culture, cinema, fashion, sports, feminism and a whole lot more. She is currently working on her own podcast with a friend and also dabbles in graphic design, when not doing her day job as an Associate Director of Media Planning. Find her on Instagram @emlrking or chatting on Confession Sessions, The C Word Mag’s own podcast.

  • Mary Raftopoulos - Editor

    Mary Raftopoulos started This is Impt during lockdown as a way to help highlight the racism we face everyday in the UK. She wanted to continue the conversation that the Black Lives Matter movement started and the discussion about racism in the UK. Speaking up and being vulnerable is something she has always shied away from on social media but she hopes these conversations help people understand the Black British experience.

  • Sam Bell - Marketing Director

    Sam Bell is a woman from London. She loves eating, drinking, cooking, socialising (only in six man pods at the moment), and keeping fit and healthy. You can often find her devouring a cheese board with a glass of wine in hand. Find her on Instagram @samanthabe11 or chatting on The C Word Mag’s podcast, Confession Sessions.

  • Lily Maret - Marketing Executive

    Lily Maret is always striving for more. With her interests and hobbies based around cooking, reading, fitness, well-being and puzzle-making she hopes to enlighten people about wellbeing and the importance of our environment through her future Geography degree in London. As a bilingual in French and English, she feels in touch with different cultures and ideologies and only wants more, more and more.

  • Nicolle Knapova - Social Media Executive

    Nicolle Knapova is a little bit of everything. She is a freelance translator, content creator and social media executive for The C Word Mag. She loves indie music and is always browsing through Spotify to find the next amazing artist to obsess over. Her love for storytelling means she’s always writing something and she’s not afraid of any genre. Her biggest dream is to be a published author. If she’s not writing her fan fiction, she’s writing her poetry and sharing it on her Instagram @elisecaverly.

  • Hiyasmin Caditz - Social Media Executive

    Hiyasmin (AKA our TikTok Queen) is a California native studying Law at SOAS, University of London. Her passion for justice, love in all forms, and social connection drive her curiosity and desire to travel and experience the world and whatever it is willing to offer. Her hobbies include reading, writing, fitness, art, photography, and fashion; you can find her in the library, the beach, the airport, or picnicking with friends. She is working towards becoming an international human rights lawyer to change humanity for the better

Our Contributors