About

Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist specialising in global inequality, digital technology and social change, with by lines in The Independent, the i, Metro, Big Issue, Dazed, Vice, Tribune, Jacobin, Refinery 29, The New Arab, mixmag and more. She was Dazed’s first ever political book columnist between 2023 and 2024. Adele is represented by literary agency Bergstrom Studio and is working on her first book.

As a lifelong bookworm, Adele has collaborated on content with a range of publishers to promote political education and youth participation in positive social change, including Penguin, Verso Books, Pluto Press, SquarePeg, Left Book Club, Headline and more. She has over 2 million views and 500,000 likes on TikTok.

Adele has been featured across a range of podcasts such as Tribune Magazine’s A World to Win, Sony’s Broccoli Book Club and Gals in Journalism and broadcast such as BBC Radio Scotland, Sky News and Channel 4.

I have a vast range of expertise in communications and PR, both in a freelance and in-house capacity, specialising in digital content strategy for progressive communications and campaigns. Charity work includes being Press Officer for Oxfam, Training Assistant for Friends, Families and Travellers, and volunteering with Amnesty, VSO, Wateraid, The World Transformed. She was also a mentor for teenagers from the Roma community with Roma Support Group.

Adele is a First Class graduate in International Development from the University of Sussex with a Placement Year in Turkey, where she worked as Social Media Manager for two NGOs.