Advisory Board
We are proud to be guided by a small group of exceptional people with an understanding of deep narrative in their backgrounds and anti-racist activism in their bones.
Emmanuelle Andrews is the Grants and Programme Manager on the Windrush Justice Programme at Action for Race Equality (ARE).
Before joining ARE, she was the Policy and Campaigns Manager at Liberty, where she held the Government to account on racist policing, surveillance, and tech issues.
Emmanuelle has won awards for campaigns, is experienced in broadcast interviews and her political writing has appeared in The Guardian, gal-dem, Huck Magazine, Red Pepper and The Independent.
Emmanuelle sits on the Board of Directors at the Public Interest Research Centre. Her work in the community has included research and youth engagement at the South London Gallery, grassroots organising around queer and trans justice, and support for protest movements against state racism, police violence and neo-colonialism.
Joseph Harker is Senior Editor, Diversity, and Development at The Guardian.
He was co-founder of the Guardian's Legacies of Enslavement project - which examined the links between the Guardian's founder and transatlantic slavery, issued an apology, and drew up a £10m+ restorative justice action plan.
Joseph also sits on the board of the Society of Editors and is a former Guardian Deputy Opinion Editor.
For more than 20 years Joseph has run the Guardian's Positive Action Scheme, which offers enhanced work experience to aspiring journalists who are ethnic-minority, or working class, or have a disability: many have gone on to have successful media careers.
Before joining the Guardian, Joseph was Editor and Publisher of the weekly newspaper Black Briton, and prior to that he was Assistant Editor at The Voice newspaper.
Kimberly McIntosh is a writer and researcher, with a focus on race and inequality.
She was senior policy officer at the Runnymede Trust, where she worked on the impact of austerity on racialised women, curriculum reform and the Windrush Scandal.
Kim currently works on the Windrush Justice for Action for Race Equality and Unbound philanthropy.
Kim has discussed her work on BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live, BBC News and Sky News and has written for a range of publications including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent, the Metro, i news, Stylist and The Sunday Times Style.
Kim's first book, the essay collection black girl, no magic, was published by HarperCollins in 2023.
Maurice Mcleod is an experienced voluntary sector leader.
He steered Race on the Agenda, one of the nation’s most prominent anti-racism charities, through both COVID-19 and the transformational changes brought about by the BLM uprising.
Maurice was twice elected to represent the residents of Battersea and a senior part of the team that is leading Wandsworth Council through its transition from a Conservative administration to a Labour one, for the first time in 44 years.
Maurice is also a senior journalist and political commentator with a long list of broadcast appearances and bylines.
Dora is the Co-Director of the Communications Hub at NEON and has led the messaging programme for four years.
She's experienced in working with campaigners, spokespeople and coalitions to develop effective messaging and narrative strategy. She has a particular interest in finding the right words to advocate for a new economic system.
Formerly Network Lead at the PIRC and Lead Organiser at Positive Money, Dora co-authored the Framing the Economy report, is a trustee at Green New Deal Rising and a member of FrameWorks UK Moving Mindsets project and Persuasion UK advisory boards.