Gill Hicks was on her way to work on a mild summer Thursday morning on the London tube. The Australian was running late on July 7, 2005. As a successful design curator and publisher she was usually at her desk by 7.30am, but this morning a crop of small things; forgetting her train pass, taking longer to get ready, had held her up and she caught a later train to Kings Cross.
With a rush of daily commuters, all squashed together and avoiding eye contact as they do, Gill filed onto a later train. It was the same train, the same carriage, that one of the London suicide bombers stepped into.
In the terror attack on London that morning, 56 people died including four suicide bombers.
Gill survived. She lost both her legs. Eleven years on her life has, obviously, is so very different.
She now has a three-year-old daughter, Amelie, and, Gill has dedicated her life to the pursuit of peace with her not-for-profit organisation M.A.D. for Peace which is dedicated to communicating to all of us the importance of our individual responsibility in creating a more peaceful world.
Gill has survived unimaginable trauma. What is even more remarkable, that after being a victim of such a violent, random terrorist attack, is that she has decided to embrace humanity instead of question it.
