Anita is a science and cultural strategist working to advance racial equality and justice within and through Black STEAM – a role model initiative that shines the spotlight on the lives of Black people working in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and the Arts. She is co-chair of the Birmingham branch of the British Science Association, and in 2015, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to explore global approaches to building STEM capital in under-represented/served/resourced communities.
Most recently, she has been successful in winning a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellowship to further develop this work over the next two years.
She co-founded BLAST, a pop-up festival and community engagement platform that fuses the creative power of science, arts and Black culture as a force for change.
Anita was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, and her work looks beyond mainstream ideas of diversity and inclusion to ownership, belonging and community leadership.
Anita says:
“If we want to live in a world that is fit for everyone, then we all have to be part of making it real. It’s about how you apply it consistently all the time in everything you do.”
