WILDD Women Founders
‘For a sustainable planet, we need sustainable people’
Meet the passionate founders of WILDD Women CIC, who, after facing job losses, decided to turn challenges into opportunities and forge ahead with a shared vision. Driven by their commitment to amplify women's voices and foster a culture of care, they aim to create safe spaces for peacebuilding, replenishment, and reflection—helping women avoid burnout and find their true paths through quiet moments, arts, and music. Their resilience and dedication inspire them to facilitate spaces where women can reconnect and celebrate themselves and each other, engage creatively, and support each other in their journeys.
Miranda Shaw
Miranda Shaw is a founding Director of Wisdom Integrity Leadership Dialogue Democracy and Women CIC (WILDD Women), a consultant, facilitator and trainer who has been involved with Creators of Peace since 2011 and has been the UK National Coordinator since 2016. Her focus has been on developing and delivering the ‘Peace Circle’ methodology to work with women from all backgrounds including migrants, refugees, leaders, communities, religions and cultures in the UK and beyond. She was employed part-time as a Programme Manager at Initiatives of Change UK from 2021 – 2025 where she focused on the expansion of Peace Circles in the UK. She is serving in her second 3-year term as Treasurer of Creators of Peace International (based in Switzerland and active in 40 countries) in a voluntary capacity.
She graduated with a degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford in 2009 and since then has been involved in climate and housing activism, personal development work, catering large community events, and supporting activists fighting illegal deportations from the UK. She previously managed a community café in Oxford. She teaches the violin, loves to dance and spends as much time as possible reading and gardening.
Elizabeth Laskar
Elizabeth Laskar is a founding Director of Wisdom Integrity Leadership Dialogue Democracy and Women CIC (WILDD Women), a consultant and facilitator for Creators of Peace for the last 15 years where her focus has been on developing and delivering the ‘Peace Circle’ methodology to work with women from all backgrounds, migrants, refugees, leaders, communities, religions and cultures in the UK and beyond. She is also a trainer for Creators of Peace International. She was employed part-time as a Programme Manager at Initiatives of Change UK from 2021 – 2025 where she focused on the expansion of Peace Circles in the UK. From 2024 to 2025 she took on an additional role of Outreach Executive with IofC UK. She is serving in her second 3-year term on the Executive committee of Creators of Peace International (based in Switzerland and active in 40 countries) in a voluntary capacity - her first term was as secretary and she is now Vice President.
Over the last two decades her life has been dedicated to the environmental and humanitarian sector. From 2005 she spent many years working in the sustainable fashion sector where she advocated for climate consciousnesses, justice and equality in the manufacturing supply chain. From 2019 to 2021 she was the lead for the Oxford Human Rights Festival at Oxford Brookes University at the Centre of Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) where she gained a first-class MA in Shelter and Disaster. Previous voluntary roles have included Treasurer of the Oxford Fair Trade Coalition. Elizabeth has a keen interest in countryside walking, enjoys history and cooking for friends and family.
“Miranda and EL are a seamless team – they bring warmth, honesty and deep generosity of spirit to all their work and it is always pleasure and an honour to work alongside them.
They have a phenomenal ability to bring together women of all ages and backgrounds, across racial, cultural, ethnic and religious divides and to nurture their capacities to listen, share and heal together.
I have watched with awe as they build the capacity of groups to co-create honest and caring circles capable of holding participants through grief, laughter, tensions and deep connection.”
— Alice McCarthy Sommerville, Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace