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Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace

Online Conference 25 May 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm

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Ellisha Soanes

Aspire Black Suffolk

Co-Director

Ellisha is an award-winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Specialist. She is also Head of Equality Diversity Inclusion for several colleges and adult education in East Anglia, and as lecturer has worked in the education sector for the past 7 years, and in the health and social care/ Public Health  sector for over 10 years.

Ellisha is an advocate for change on social mobility and was highly influential as one of the first Further Educational lecturer to facilitate Black History across the year, in the UK. Her accolades include author on the list creating one of the first Black History interactive books that shows positive representation in book Elimu Little Book of knowledge, which is being used across schools and the award-winning Power of Stories Exhibition.

She also mentors’ young people in the community and collaborates with businesses and community projects to empower others and create new opportunities. Ellisha has worked closely with the Department of Education, and has supported with the equality act legalisation review and continues to do so on creating changes, written educational articles and has been featured in national journals as column writer and papers such as The Guardian and was recently honoured in Glamour magazine for being Top 15 Trailblazer Black Women in the UK, and is United Nations Women’s delegate.

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