Here’s where you can find our staff and trustees.

Staff

Ali Harris

Ali joins us from Citizens Advice as our Chief Executive.  She brings twenty years of leadership experience from organisations like Oxfam and Stonewall. She’s fought homophobia, pioneered new ways to support domestic violence survivors, and championed disability rights in war-torn Bosnia.

You can follow her at @alifharris.

Liz Shannon

A London native, Liz leads on all things policy and parliamentary. She has a strong campaigning background: from widening access to education at UCU, to getting Fair Trade off the ground at Oxfam.

Kathryn Quinton

Kathryn is our Communications Director, leading our respected strategic communications programme to shift public opinion on social issues to influence policy. The programme comprises audience insight, frame and message development, content and campaign creation, and sector capacity-building.

Tracey Agyeman

Tracey is our network and communications officer. Her work involves leading the network on policy and campaign positions, communications and membership relations. She acts as the project manager within the secretariat of the Funders for Race Equality Alliance.

Alice Jennings

Alice is our Head of Digital and Strategic Communications. She helps lead our strategic communications programme, working on audience insight, frame and message development, content and campaign creation, and sector capacity-building. She joins us from ActionAid UK.

Tanishtha Bhatia Sen Gupta

Tanishtha is our Programme and Projects Intern. She studied Human Rights as the School of Advanced Studies UoL, and is currently studying Refugee Studies at London Southbank University. Her role includes providing support on various projects such as our work with the Funders for Race Equality Alliance and our work on Brexit, equality and human rights.

Aimee Dorsett-Browne

Aimee is our Social Enterprise Development Manager, leading on the equality strand of the Enterprise Development Programme. The programme encourages equality organisations to explore incorporating trading in their practice as a way to build financial resilience and foster innovation across the sector. Prior to joining Equally Ours, Aimee worked at Media Trust where she led, amongst other things, a strategic communications programme for London-based equality organisations.

Trustees

Asif Afridi

Asif is our Chair, joining us from the Birmingham think tank brap. His areas of expertise include deprivation; social networks and cohesion; inequalities in political representation, and human rights protection in the UK.

Sarah Veale, CBE

Sarah is our Vice-Chair. She was Head of the Equality and Employment Rights Department at the TUC, where she helped negotiate the basis of the Temporary Agency Work Directive with CBI and the Government.

Jean Scott

Jean is our Treasurer, and another TUC alumni as their Head of Finance. She’s worked with TUC Education Trust, Tolpuddle Memorial Trust and TUC Aid.

Julie Bishop

Julie is the Director of the Law Centres Network, working to defend the legal rights of people who can’t afford a lawyer. She’s also worked in IT, and taught philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Poornima Karunacadacharan

Poornima has 20 years of professional experience working with BAME communities, including refugees and asylum seekers, and tackling race inequalities at a structural level. She has expertise in delivering training on the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty. Poornima is the Senior Policy Officer at Race on the Agenda.

Janet Veitch, OBE

Janet is also our Vice-Chair. She specialises in public policy on women’s rights. She’s one of the management committee members at the Women’s Budget Group and was awarded an OBE for services to women’s rights in 2011.

Chris Whitwell

Chris is the former Director of Friends, Families and Travellers. He’s dedicated to addressing the needs of those groups who are  ‘chronically excluded’ and who often remain untouched by mainstream initiatives.

Dr Wanda Wyporska, FRSA

Wanda is Executive Director of the Equality Trust and a Visiting Fellow at the University of York. She’s also a trustee of LGBT History Month.

Magdelene Davis

Magdelene is a corporate governance professional currently working for a listed technology company. She has worked in various industries including finance, corporate services and retail, mainly supporting boards with discharging their duties and responsibilities.

Emily McCarron

Emily McCarron is the Equality and Human Rights Policy Manager at Age UK. Her areas of expertise are policy, strategy, research and campaigning; and she has a thorough understanding of inequality and poverty particularly as they relate to gender, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic disadvantage, age and access to justice.

Ceri Smith

Ceri is an experienced political influencer and campaigner, with expertise in issues including disability employment, social care, disability and age discrimination, loneliness, welfare rights, and consumer issues. She is currently the Head of Policy and Campaigns at the disability equality charity Scope.

Clare Moody

Clare sits on the board of Fair Play South West (FPSW). She joined FPSW following her role as an MEP sitting on the European Parliament’s Equality Committee and before then spent 20 years as a trade union official working to deliver equality in the workplace.