MOPAC London Policing Board
Award-winning academic, author & consultant specialising in racial justice in education & the workplace.
I am Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London and Distinguished Fellow, Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. I help people think critically about how they understand racial justice and, as a result, implement better strategies for change.
I was Specialist Advisor, 2019-2022, to the Home Affairs’ Select Committee The Macpherson Report 22 Years On and Senior Advisor (Race & Higher Education) to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 2020-2022.
I was previously a member of the Wellcome Trust’s Anti-racism Expert Group and their Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group and the British Science Association’s Equality & Diversity Advisory Group.
I am probably best known for my research on Black female professors – the first study to examine this group in the UK – and the related exhibition Phenomenal Women: portraits of UK Black female professors which went on display at London’s Southbank Centre. In 2020, I appeared as an expert contributor in the BAFTA-winning Channel 4 documentary The School That Tried to End Racism.
My new book – The Racial Code: tales of resistance and survival – was published by Penguin Press in October 2022.