Gemma Hallett

Gemma Hallett (born 24 August 1981) is a Welsh rugby union retired professional player who has played second row and number 8, earning 35 caps for Wales.

Hallett started her international career making her appearance in the Welsh Students squad in April 2004 coached by Nadine Griffiths.

After impressing then coach Nadine Griffiths for the Welsh students squad whilst in university, Hallett was invited to join the tour to South Africa in 2004.

The same season Hallett was named Premiership Player of The Year at the annual WRU women's dinner, where she was presented with a trophy by her playing idol; Scott Quinnell.

[citation needed] Hallett has since proclaimed that she voiced her disapproval over the WRU managements decision to withdraw Wales Women from the RBS 6 Nations tournament and into a second-tier competition.

[28] Since retiring from playing and coaching, Hallett has provided pitch-side commentary and studio punditry for Sky Sports, World Rugby, S4C and BBC.

[34] She regularly takes to twitter to call out the inaction of the WRU in providing pathways or repairing the damage they have caused to the elite game.

She took redundancy from her teaching job to start a social business that helps mobilise school leavers and those furthest from the labour market towards better futures[35] and advocates for young people that choose not to go to university or are less privileged than those who can.

[38] Hallett has expressed her desire to meet a wider UK and global need, but insists that even though there has always been a compelling argument to consider moving the business outside of Wales.

[41] Which will see miFuture achieve its goal of becoming the complete careers app for generation Z and change behavioural habits in moving young people towards better skilled higher paid futures.

[42] As a response to COVID-19 Hallett decided to release all the technology and service for free for all partners, collaborators and to support everyone in the school leavers ecosystem and ensure that energy can still be poured into a generation that is going to be so negatively impacted by the economic fall out of the pandemic [43][44] Hallett has big plans going forward and in a recent interview she was asked ‘What can we expect from miFuture in 2021?’ She replied “We are going hard on skills, for sure.

Gemma Hallett