Kate Nash to judge Amnesty International Youth Awards

Kate Nash to judge Amnesty International's Youth Awards alongside Rankin and Sir Richard Branson.

BRIT Award-winning singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and global style icon, Kate Nash has been appointed to the judging panel of Amnesty International's Youth Awards. Kate is joined by renowned photographer Rankin, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Trevor McDonald OBE.

Entrants from seven to 19 years old can enter five categories: songwriter or performer, photographer, fundraiser, campaigner or reporter – highlighting a human rights issue of their choice.

Kate will judge the singer-songwriter category and says, "I fell in love with making and playing music when I was at school. Not only is music a powerful form of expression, it can also educate and stir others into action. It's great that Amnesty recognises music as such an important mode of expressing human rights, and I'm delighted to be a judge for Amnesty's Youth Awards Singer-Songwriting strand."