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.

Gulbanu (Gee) Kader – International Education Consultant & School Improvement Specialist

Gulbanu (Gee) Kader is an award-winning International Independent Education Consultant with over 27 years of experience transforming schools and developing leaders. Her work is rooted in a simple but powerful

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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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Amjad Ali – Trust CPD and Inclusion Lead

Amjad Ali is regarded as one of the most engaging and empowering voices in the fields of inclusive leadership and professional development. With his trademark humour, warmth, and clarity, Amjad

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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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Beverly Clarke MBE – AI in Education Speaker

Beverly Clarke MBE is an award-winning AI in education speaker, motivational speaker, author, coach and tech education expert. With experience spanning corporate IT, classroom teaching, senior education leadership, national computing

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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 – Consultancy: Director of Education (Special MAT) | Local Authority Leader | BAMEed Coach

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 – Inclusion and SEND Specialist, Consultant and Coach

Nazya has worked with a range of SEND schools including consulting for school improvement over the years. She has a wealth of experience as a senior leader and has undertaken

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Shehlha Zafir – Curriculum Director Curriculum Director for English | Education Leader | DEIB Advocate

Shehlha Zafir is an experienced Curriculum Director for English at Meridian Trust, where she supports school leaders across multiple regions to strengthen the quality of teaching, learning and curriculum design

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June B – Bestselling Author and Women’s Empowerment Speaker

June B. is a bestselling author, wellness facilitator, and empowerment speaker whose work is rooted in one powerful truth — that your pain has a purpose. Through her deeply personal

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Siya Twani – Mental Toughness and Resilience Motivational Speaker

Siya Twani is a performance and leadership development coach, trainer, and speaker specialising in effective communication, conflict resolution, and resilience within fostering and children’s social care. He brings a person‑centred,

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Richard Etienne – Founder, The Introvert Space™

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 Ijeoma Lloyd MBE – Founder and CEO

Shalom Ijeoma Lloyd MBE Shalom is an award-winning, senior business professional, with over 29 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. A British Nigerian with a BSc and MSc in Pharmacy

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Asia Giuliani – Education Consultant specialising in Reparative and Inclusive Practice

Asia is a Doctor of Philosophy in Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed UKRI scholarship) and she is the founding director of Global Routes Project CIC, a company that supports children with critical

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Domini Choudhury – Education Systems Leader and Inclusion Specialist

Domini Choudhury is a highly experienced systems leader in education, with over 20 years of senior leadership across schools and academy trusts. She supports school and local authority leaders with

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Amarbeer Singh Gill – Teacher Educator and Assistant Director

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 – Scholar-Activist, Creative Educator, Consultant

Dr April-Louise Pennant is an award-winning sociologist, creative educator, scholar-activist and consultant whose work reshapes how we understand education, equity, social justice and heritage spaces. Rooted in a deep commitment

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Sanum Jawaid Khan – Assistant Headteacher

Sanum is an experienced secondary teacher and leader of RS, PSHE and Citizenship. She has worked in state secondary schools for over 15 years and contributes regularly to the wider

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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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Amit Singh Kalley – Digital Safeguarding Specialist & Storyteller

Amit is the Founder of For Working Parents, a company that helps organisations, schools and colleges build cultures where working parents and carers can thrive. A former Deputy Headteacher and

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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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Daryl Sinclair – Consultant

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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Patrick Cozier – Headteacher

Patrick Cozier is a successful and experienced secondary school leader. He has been a Headteacher of a large comprehensive school (over 1500 students) for the last 19 years. He has

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Ahmad Dolani – Doctor of Education (EdD), Educational Leader, Strategic Advisor and Researcher

Ahmad Dolani is an accomplished educational leader, strategic advisor, and Doctor of Education researcher with over 25 years of international experience across the UK, Middle East, and global education sectors.

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Caroline Lucy Davis – English Educator and DEI Advocate

Caroline Lucy Davis is an English teacher of British Caribbean heritage with over 20 years experience of working with diverse groups within education in the UK and internationally (Asia, Europe

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Daisy Mae Wright – Artist-Teacher + Post-Graduate Researcher

Daisy Wright is an artist teacher and doctoral researcher with teaching and lecturing experience across secondary and postgraduate education. Her teaching in culturally diverse school and university settings has shaped

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Adrian Rollins – Principal

Adrian Rollins is currently Principal at a school in the Midlands. Adrian is in his 24th year in Education (his previous career was professional cricket) and he is in his

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Dr Sarah Gordon – Lecturer, researcher, creative designer

Dr Sarah R. Gordon is a design researcher, lecturer, and advocate whose work sits at the intersection of design methodology, race, and higher education. Her PhD (University of Nottingham, 2025)

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Manju Patel-Nair – EdActivist, Hopeful Disruptor and Consultant

Manju is a trainer & consultant who supports schools and HEI across across various fields encompassing racial justice, community cohesion, equitable school linking, gender equality, global citizenship and development education.

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Yamina Bibi – Education Consultant, CPD Trainer, Author and Former Deputy Headteacher

Yamina Bibi is an award-winning former Deputy Headteacher and English Teacher from London. Yamina is currently Education Project Specialist at Chiltern Learning Trust and a Freelance Consultant. Alongside this work,

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Uzma Kausar – Director of English

Uzma is a Head of English who thrives on improving teaching and learning at KS3-5. She has a passion for her subject and her personal experience shows that young people

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Blessing Maregere – Senior Work-Based Learning Tutor and Programme Leader in Degree Apprenticeships

Blessing Maregere is a Programme Leader for Degree Apprenticeships and Senior Work-Based Learning Tutor with expertise in dialogic assessment, professional discussions, inclusive curriculum design, and assessment in the age of

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Tayera Khan – Lead Officer

Senior Programme Lead, Social Development and Safeguarding, Multi-Agency Community Migration I provide specialist advice, support, and deliver training and workshops to professionals across a range of organisations. My work focuses

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Dr Nasima Riazat – Public and mental health researcher/lecturer

Nasima Riazat currently works in secondary education as a teacher and middle leader. She has expertise in educational leadership, coaching, teaching and learning. X-twitter Contact bameed@outlook.com, and we’ll connect you with

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Dr Anjali Shah – Senior Lecturer in Education

Anjali Shah is a former Science teacher now working as a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Chester. My research focuses on the development of professional identity of new

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Nidal Al Haj Sleiman – Educational leadership and Social Justice Researcher

Nidal is a researcher in educational leadership, policy, and social justice. His work focuses on leadership development and organisational equity, informed by social and cultural justice as well as decolonial

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Sharon Warmington – Executive Coach

Sharon Warmington is a specialist in corporate and school governance and holding a degree in Leadership for Change and Growth, Sharon is a results driven and highly sought after, global executive

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Danielle Perez – Founder and School Leader | Empowering Students, Staff and Leaders for Success

Danielle Perez is an education leader, Secondary head, and Founder/CEO with international experience in transforming the life chances of young people and equipping educators to deliver measurable impact. She works

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Kelly Trivedy – Academic Enhancement Consultant, Coach and Tutor

Kelly Trivedy is an educational educator and researcher with Senior Fellow status based in Nottingham (and globally online). She runs her own business with a focus on three main strands

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Kevin J Brazant – Cultural Systems Designer and Senior Educational Developer

I am a Cultural Systems Designer and Encounters Artist working at the intersection of education, culture, and justice. My work explores how institutions create and control voice, legitimacy, and belonging,

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Rizwan Afzal – Trust Lead and Head of Faculty

Rizwan Afzal is a Head of Faculty and Trust lead for Humanities, passionate about growth and making a difference to students and professionals from challenging and disadvantaged backgrounds. Rizzyafzal@gmail.com Return

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Tracey Thomas-Marshall – Senior Learning Improvement Consultant

Tracey Thomas-Marshall is a Senior Learning Improvement consultant working for Leeds City Council. Tracey specialises in meeting the needs of disadvantaged learners, middle leadership and teaching and learning. X-twitter Contact bameed@outlook.com, and we’ll

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Kulvinder Kaur Johal – Regional Mentor

Kulvinder Kaur Johal is a former AHT and SLT member with over 25yrs teaching experience. She is now working as a Regional Mentor in Primary Science across London and the South

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Aggie Yemurai Mutuma

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma – CEO

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma, the CEO of Mahogany Inclusion Partners, is a multi-award-winning Inclusion and Anti-Racism expert, Executive Coach, and captivating speaker. With over 25 years of experience in People strategy,

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Dilma de Araujo – SEN advisor and researcher

Dilma de Araujo is part of a dynamic group, supporting middle and senior leadership team duties as a Special Education Needs educator. She is a special education needs advisor and researcher for

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Joss Cambridge-Simmons – Childcare Specialist And Entrepreneur

Joss Cambridge-Simmons is a nanny and battles with the stereotypes that exist about men working in Early Years. Joss, also a DJ, is keen to share his professional experiences over the last

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Richard O’Neill MBE – Author and Organisational Storyteller

Richard O’Neill is a Romani storyteller, international award-winning author, and literacy consultant and visiting professor who delivers inspiring storytelling, organisational storytelling, and storytelling skills training across schools, charities, and organisations.

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Kojo Hazel – PE Teacher and Head of Vocational Education

Kojo Hazel is a Physical Education teacher and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. Kojo is also Head of Vocational Education, a dedicated basketball coach, personal trainer, co-owner of Tribal Basketball, co-owner

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