I am the founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative. I am an entrepreneur designing and facilitating organisational learning and development programmes, change management interventions as service reviews, as well as working with youth services, social care and health systems. I established and worked with a consultancy and training company for 15 years, and have advised regional and national government on enterprise development for women and Black and Minoritised communities.

I have postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications in community and youth work, teaching and social work. I have also been on the boards of charitable trusts, I am a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

As a Churchill Fellow, I travelled to Atlanta in Georgia and to New Zealand to explore social leadership development in African-American communities, and community enterprise and the transfer of indigenous knowledge inter-generationally within the Maori community.

The Fellowship acted as a catalyst for the development of The Ubele Initiative, which has been at the forefront of supporting Black and Minoritised communities nationally during Covid-19.