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 focus is to improve English provision across the trust. This includes how children are seen and represented. 

Shehlha has led sessions on DEI work and representation in the English Curriculum and in the curriculum in general working at subject level, school level and Trust level as well as working with all levels of leadership. 

Shehlha is also co-lead for BAMEed East Midlands

shehlhazafir@gmail.com