10 Feb 2016

Dr Easkey Britton: the first woman to surf Iran

From Afternoons, 2:21 pm on 10 February 2016
Easkey Britton

Photo: YouTube

Irish champion big wave surfer Dr Easkey Britton is also an Adjunct Waikato University researcher and co-founded the #SurfSocialGood hashtag summit and the Fair Surf platform.

Easkey co-founded 'Waves of Freedom', which started with Easkey and a french filmmaker going to Iran and teaching men and women in rural Iran how to surf. More recently, she has been working in Papua New Guinea.

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