Speakers – BAMEed Network

Speakers

Find speakers for your next event

If you’re seeking diverse voices for your next event, perhaps following our organising an event toolkit, these individuals may be of interest to you. The BAMEed Network seeks to signpost education communities to knowledge and support.

We invite Black, Asian and minority ethnic educators and speakers with education backgrounds to submit profiles using this form to be featured on this page. New profiles are continually added to the database.

Fozia Nisar – Head of School

Fozia Nisar is Head of School at Lift Montgomery Primary Academy, an outstanding Birmingham-based primary school within Lift Schools. With twenty years of experience working in education, Fozia is a

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Ruchi Sabharwal – Headteacher and author

Ruchi Sabharwal is an experienced headteacher, educational leader, and published author with a strong track record of driving school improvement and fostering inclusive, growth-minded learning environments. Currently leading a large

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Ajay Ajimobi – Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Lead | Charity Director

Ajay Ajimobi is ranked UK’s 9th Most Outstanding Future Leader, an award-winning diversity & inclusion champion, education activist, public speaker, and board member. As an authentic, values-oriented leader, Ajay is

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Elizabeth Olulari

Elizabeth Olulari – National Education Lead for Racial Justice

Elizabeth Olulari is a highly sought-after speaker, educator, and consultant known for her transformative insights on equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice (EDIJ) in education and leadership. With over two decades

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Amjad Ali – Consultant and Senior Leader

Amjad Ali (@TeachLeadAAli) is a dedicated teacher, trainer, Senior Leader, and TEDx speaker with a passion for transforming education. With a wealth of experience in diverse and challenging schools, Amjad

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Sanna Chaudhry – SDR Manager

Sanna Chaudhry works at a tech start up called RideTandem where she leads a sales team of 5 to grow their customer base in the UK. She has gained 2

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Bilkis Miah – CEO & Founder

Bilkis Miah is the Founder of You Be You” an innovative initiative dedicated to empowering young people through culturally relevant diversity and inclusion education and community engagement. Recognised as one

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Jacob Seminole Henry – Chief Operating Officer

Jacob Seminole Henry is an experienced youth practitioner, trainer and consultant – Fully Dedicated. He also sits as a panel member for the independent oversight advisory board for the Welsh

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Beverly Clarke MBE – Education Consultant, Coach, Speaker, Founder/CEO

A multi-award winner and a leader in education. Beverly Clarke MBE, seeks to raise the outcomes for all through understanding of and access to technology. She has a portfolio career,

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Multazim Zia – Founder and Director, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Writer, Specialist Physiotherapist

I’m Multazim Zia, a Entrepreneur, Writer, Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, Law Masters Student, Founder & Clinical Director, Presenter, Public Speaker, and National Award Winner. I’m based in the vibrant city of

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Shaheen Myers – Founder and former Deputy Director Education for Leeds City Council

Shaheen Myers has over 22 years’ experience in inner-city schools and established a background in leading and supporting schools in challenging circumstances. Her exposure within the wider aspects of education

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Krupa Patel – Consultant and Executive Coach across Education and Local Authorities

Krupa has vast experience in a variety of educational settings. She trained as a mainstream teacher, followed by leadership posts including Assistant Headship, Headship and Director posts within SEN/D settings

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Nazya Ghalib – Headteacher, Coach and SEND Specialist

Nazya has worked with a range of SEND schools including consulting for school improvement over the years, before that she worked as a Software Engineer for a global software company

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Jeffrey Manso – Purpose Coach | Workshop Facilitator | Keynote Speaker

Jeffrey is a Purpose Coach, Workshop Facilitator and Keynote Speaker. After becoming a qualified Coach in 2022, Jeffrey used his passion for improving the lives of others to start his

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Ife Obasa – Fourth Year Law Student | Inspirational Speaker | Education Consultant

Ife is a sought-after speaker for schools, conferences, and corporate events, having spoken at the likes of YMS Conference LDN, The Institute of Student Employers Conference and Edge Foundation’s Next

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Shehlha Zafir – Curriculum Director for English

Shehlha is currently working for the Meridian Trust based in Cambridgeshire and covering Bedfordshire. Northamptonshire, Peterborough and Lincolnshire. She works with 14 secondary schools including 6th forms and key her

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Tefaney Stewart – Head of Art And Design/ Inspirational speaker/ Education consultant

In a world where representation matters, Tefaney is a visionary, leading the charge to overcome barriers and facilitate honest conversations about race and racism in modern day Britain. Her work

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Farzana Wahed Hussain – Headteacher and President of The Muslim Teachers’ Association

Farzana has been teaching for over 23 years, with experience in various leadership roles. She started her career in her own Primary school, a Church of England school in Dartford,

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Precious Zumbika-Lwanga – Founder/ Entrepreneur

Precious is an experienced Executive, Cost & Commercial Expert, Strategic Advisor and Non-Executive Director to several boards. She holds a BSc Hons in Quantity Surveying (University of Cape Town) and

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JuneB – Life coach, Meditation teacher and Motivational Speaker

JuneB is a bundle of joy who spreads light and happiness wherever she goes. She is a singer, author, certified strategic life coach, certified crystal healer, photographer, an artist, motivational

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Abdi Ibrahim – Director & Personal Development Expert

Abdi Ibrahim has over a decade of experience in coaching and leading teams across various companies and industries. He specialised in providing training, development, and implementing business strategies. Currently, Abdi

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Siya Twani – Mental Toughness and Resilience Motivational Speaker

IT TAKES GUTS- Meet the man who like a Giraffe stuck his neck out for what he believed. Like Nelson Mandela, Siya was tortured and imprisoned for making a stand

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Richard Etienne – Director of Internal Communications

Former official videographer to British Prime Minister Theresa May,  Richard holds senior communications positions within the private and third sectors and has aided the online promotion of global brands in academia,

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Shalom Lloyd – Founder & CEO

Shalom Lloyd is an award-winning, senior business professional, with over 26 year’s experience in the pharmaceutical industry. A British-Nigerian with a BSc and MSc in Pharmacy from the Ukrainian Academy

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Asia Giuliani – Equity Diversity and Inclusion Lead and founder of Global Routes Project

Asia is Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Clifton High School, Bristol and has led sessions for Haringey and Islington councils on the topic of anti-racist curriculum design and child-led learning,

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Domini Leong – Deputy Headteacher

Domini is a Deputy Headteacher of a large, inner-city, very comprehensive Secondary school in Bristol. She has 12 years of senior leadership experience across all areas of school improvement in

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Chiedza Ikpeh – EDI Consultant and Researcher

Chiedza Ikpeh is a dedicated speaker, scholar activist, and director of the RARA Education Project, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting real and authentic representations of Africans and Caribbeans across

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Angie Cord – Senior Lecturer

Having dedicated fourteen years to her work as a primary teacher and curriculum leader in London, Angie now works as consultant specialising in equality, diversity and inclusion alongside her role

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Amarbeer Singh Gill – Senior Trust Lead (Maths)/Teacher Educator

Amarbeer Singh Gill (or Singh as he’s more commonly known) is a teacher educator for Ambition Institute and Senior Trust Lead for maths, as well as a former lead practitioner

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Dr April-Louise Pennant – sociologist, researcher, scholar-activist, creative educator, consultant

Dr April-Louise Pennant is an award-winning sociologist, creative educator, scholar-activist and consultant based in Cardiff, who highlights the anti-Black, gendered racism of the education system and wider society within her

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Sanum Jawaid Khan

Sanum Jawaid Khan – Assistant Headteacher

Sanum is an Assistant Headteacher who leads on PSHE, Careers and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Her academic background is in Philosophy (BA and MA) and she has successfully led both

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Christopher Green – Head of EDI

Christopher Clyde Green is a Teacher of Literature and TOK, Writer and Workshop Leader/School Accreditation Team for the IB and CIS. He is a self-confessed, life-long learner and a UK-born/Swiss-living,

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Louise Jaunbocus-Cooper – Deputy Headteacher & Co-founder MixEd

Louise is a Deputy Headteacher in Trafford Greater Manchester. Louise leads on safeguarding, behaviour, attendance and EDI. Louise is co-founder of MixEd a platform for exploration of mixed heritage identity.

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Tosin Oliyide – SENCo and Head of Curriculum Support

Currently a SENCo and a qualified dyslexia assessor, Tosin has 18 years’ experience in the Education Sector and started her education career as a science teacher. She has had roles

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Herman W Stewart – Founder and CEO of Every Child Needs a Mentor Ltd

Founder & CEO of Every Child Needs a Mentor Ltd, also known as ‘The Mentor’s Mentor.’ Herman is a multi-award-winning mentor, author, entrepreneur, mentoring expert and podcast host. Herman has

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Frances Akinde – Headteacher / SEND Advisor

Frances is highly experienced in SEND and a champion of children/ young people with SEND. She is also neurodivergent. For the last 3 ½ years she has been a headteacher

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Aisha Raymond – Head of Primary

Aisha Raymond became a Headteacher at 33 and became one of the youngest Black Headteachers in the UK. She is passionate that all children are successful regardless of the barriers

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Nav Ahmed – Principal Lecturer

Nav Ahmed is a Principal Lecturer at Arden University and an award-winning educator. With a background in Modern Languages, Nav studied French Studies with German at the University of Warwick

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Matthew Rudy Meangru – Assistant Professor of Economics

Matthew Rudy Meangru is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University-London. He teaches calculus for business to undergraduate students. Matthew is passionate about showing his students that learning calculus

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Navdeep Sanghara – CEO

Nav became the CEO of The Woodland Academy Trust, a small primary multi-academy trust in Kent, in January 2021. Nav began her career as a teaching assistant in Lewisham and

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Amit Singh Kalley – Coach, Consultant, Storyteller

Amit is Co-Founder of For Working Parents, a company that helps organisations become more inclusive for their working parents and employees. A former Deputy Headteacher, Amit uses his experience and

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Dr. Keith Russell – Education Consultant

Dr. Russell worked in education for over 25 years as a Teacher, Head of English, Lead Practitioner and Ofsted trainee. He has worked in UK and international settings: Brunei, Malaysia,

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Rodney Mudaly – Computer Science and Race and Ethnic Diversity Lead

Rodney has been a teacher, subject lead and principal for 24 years in all three education sectors at various stages on his journey. Rodney came to the UK from South

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Martina Witter – Health and Wellbeing Consultant, Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Mindset Coach

Dynamic Motivational Speaker on Resilience, Imposter Syndrome,Mindfulness & Emotional Wellbeing Award Winning Martina Witter, Director of Rapha Therapy and Training Services & cofounder of Black women in Business & professionals

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Dr Nilufar Ahmed – Lecturer in Social Sciences

Dr Nilufar Ahmed is a Psychologist, Academic, Psychotherapist, and Equality and Diversity Trainer. With decades of experience in the area of education and inequalities is committed to making change happen.

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Rebena Sanghera – Transition Coach

Rebena Sanghera is a Transition Coach with a 20 year background in technical education and is a T level Ambassador for the Department for Education, promoting T Level awareness and

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Emmanuel Awoyelu – Assistant Head Teacher

Emmanuel Awoyelu is a SENCO, Assistant Head Teacher of inclusion,safeguarding lead ,behavior and subject lead for PSHE in a 3-19 Mainstream school. He previously taught in a specialist school for

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Dr Judith Bruce-Golding – Consultant and Senior Teaching Fellow

Dr Judith Bruce-Golding is a Consultant and Senior Teaching Fellow. She has been a teacher for over 14 years and has experience working across all education stages. Judith has completed

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Daryl Sinclair – Head of Secondary

Daryl is an experienced international teacher committed to decolonising geography and making international work more accessible and equitable for BAME teachers. With experience teaching a variety of exam boards from

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Zelpher Ferguson – Behaviour Consultant

Zelpher Ferguson has been in education for 39 years with learners from age 3 to adults. She has worked in state schools, in the independent sector, in further education and

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