Meet our speakers!
Jenn Wilson
Jenn Wilson (they/them) is a consent specialist, facilitator and founder of the International Day of Consent. Creator of the Consent Compas DXs framework and Activist in Residence at Leeds Beckett University, Jenn has spent decades working where personal practice meets political change.
Queer, neurodivergent and gender non-conforming, Jenn approaches ethical non-monogamy as a conscious political choice — a deliberate rejection of relationship norms that mirror wider systems of entitlement and control. Their work is guided by relentless kindness, playful curiosity, and radical consent.
DK Green
DK Green (he/him) is a private-practice, psychodynamic, integrative and holistic psychotherapist and supervisor, speaker and author, serving the GSRD (Gender, Sex, Relationship Diversities) communities that he actively co-inhabits for many years.
He has presented on numerous GSRD topics at national events since the 1990s, including several UK Universities, events, and for numerous organisations (including NHS).
He has held workshops at Polyday since it’s very first iteration in Leicester 2004, on subjects such as Polyamory 101, Polyamory and parenting, and Polyamory and Mental Health.
He wrote both the online therapists training module, and the book chapter in Relationally Queer (Routledge, 2023) on ENM/CNM as well as spoken webinars and keynotes on at annual conferences on behalf of Pink Therapy.
Founding member of http://polycounselling.co.uk – a peer discussion group to facilitate CNM therapists’ development and to help educate more therapists on working with CNM.
He has been quoted in several books (e.g. A World Beyond Monogamy, Jonathan Kent, Luminastra Pr, 2021 [forward by MJ Barker]) and interviewed for many academic research papers. He has been interviewed on podcasts, radio, research papers and for newspaper articles (inc., Independent on Sunday).
DK identifies as a queer, leather, polyamorous, spiritual, family, transman.
Grant Denkinson
Grant Denkinson (he/him) lives in Leeds, has been in polyamorous relationships for a few decades and likes forming and developing poly community. He founded Polyday in Leicester in 2004 and ran the uk-poly email list starting last century. He has contributed to books and been interviewed for mainstream media.
Quinn Daley
Quinn (they/she) has been the co-organizer of Yorkshire O.P.E.N since 2012. In those 14 years, this support group has grown into a diverse and self-sustaining support community.
As well as running O.P.E.N, Quinn is chair of Pride Place, Leeds’s first LGBTQ+ community centre, and she works by day as a leadership consultant in the tech space. She is openly trans and autistic and would love to talk to you about board games, cooking, Kate Bush, Twin Peaks or how great Yorkshire is.
Persephone Jayne
As kids we got so many mixed and contradictory messages that they made us question everything we felt, everything we did, everything we said… The audacity! I’m here to remind you that it was BS then and it’s BS now. Create a life that aligns with everything you hold dear by discovering, knowing, and honoring… you!
Enter Persephone (she/her). As an emotional intelligence practitioner, Montessorian, and GenXer who spent her entire childhood fighting to be able to make her OWN choices, she’s here to remind you that even if your childhood sucked… Adulting doesn’t have to.
Ash Bainbridge
Ash Bainbridge (he/they) is a midwife, researcher, and family changemaker. As a trans polyamorous birthing parent serving families in the NHS, Ash works to advance inclusive, evidence-based, and experience-focused perinatal care, and to redefine what excellence looks like for polyamorous parents. They also love including songs in workshop titles.
Ash has held nationally recognised leadership roles as Trustee for White Ribbon Alliance UK, Gender Inclusion Advisor for MAMA Academy, and Steering Group Member for the James Lind Alliance’s LGBTQIA+ Perinatal Care Research Priority Setting Partnership. In 2024, Ash won the UK Student Midwife of the Year award for outstanding contributions to enhancing perinatal services for LGBTQIA+ communities. An experienced educator and speaker, Ash has delivered training on how to improve care for polyamorous and LGBTQIA+ families to NHS professionals, universities, charities, and volunteers across the UK and Ireland.
Ash can be found on Instagram: @ash_the_midwife_poet