Date: Thursday 8 October 2026
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 UK time
Location: Zoom
We will be discussing the way gendered Anti-Black racism impacts the experiences of Black girls in our schools. We will be considering the different narratives about Black girls that are prevalent in schools, how Black girls navigate these, how teachers and systems may play a role in sustaining these but can also disrupt them proactively and act in solidarity when Black girls raise concerns with them.
Our speakers will be:
Jemima Duodu: 1st Class International Relations graduate from De Montfort University. Jemima was empowered after attending a previous online Project FREE event to reach out to discuss several topics surrounding race in education. The discussion led to Jemima sharing her own experiences as a Black girl in education. Her story ignited the concept for this event!
Jemima is passionate about advocacy work, having worked with the De Montfort University United Nations SDG hub to develop the refugee advocacy project: Project Atefa and wrote her dissertation thesis on the marginalisation of African and Black British feminist discourse in Black feminist epistemology.
Natasha Boyce: a James McCune Smith Scholar and PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, driven by a lifelong commitment to social justice in education her research is situated at the vital intersections of race, gender, and class, with a specific focus on the lived experiences of Black girls in English secondary schools. Her doctoral thesis explores the nuanced ways in which Black girls agitate, disrupt, and resist racialised and gendered oppression.
Danielle Chebe: 2nd Year Student at the University of Bristol – a Black Curriculum intern and also selected for the Patchwork’s Masterclass programme, a highly competitive programme that supports emerging leaders in British politics and civil society from underrepresented backgrounds.Danielle is an inspiration to us all.
Heather Smith: a Professor at Newcastle University, a passionate advocate of the transformative role of education for social justice. Her teaching and research focus on developing greater understandings about and action for race and language equality, drawing on critical race theory and critical understandings of whiteness.
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