We're not just about gender. Equity through an intersectional lens.
We are supported by an amazing team of eight volunteer ambassadors, who help run our events, raise awareness of the charter and help us to deliver our goals of making Bristol a gender equal city.
If you'd like to join the ambassador team, please get in touch and let us know how you can help!
We are supported by an amazing team of eight volunteer ambassadors, who help run our events, raise awareness of the charter and help us to deliver our goals of making Bristol a gender equal city.
If you'd like to join the ambassador team, please get in touch and let us know how you can help!
Anita sawhneyAnita is a senior human resource and coaching and mentoring practitioner, with a background in psychology and a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management. In previous roles she has specialised in the area of diversity and overseeing employee resource groups in meeting the activities of the strategic HR plan.
With 15 years experience in human resources she has worked in industries spanning technology, management consulting, tourism, local councils and entertainment for both large multinational and SME sized companies. She is a certified psychometric assessor for the Thomas International Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) and studying for a Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring qualification. |
Bianca jonesBianca has specialised in mental health and race awareness training for the last 7 years, her focus is to work together with businesses to dismantle racism and help improve mental health in the workplace.
As creator of the Anti-Racism course Race Ahead and Race Aware, her course is a building block for businesses and individuals to learn about race, racism and its effects on mental health as well as champion change by becoming proactive anti-racism allies. |
Emma fryEmma is a Consultant, dedicated to creating positive impact by driving forward social, environmental and organisational change. With a background in psychology and a masters in Social and Organisational Psychology.
Emma has been involved in a range of projects spanning the intersectionality between gender and social class in academic settings and unravelling the enablers and blockers to leadership progression in women. Currently in her role as a consultant, Emma leverages her expertise to help organisations through transformative and sustainable change.” |
Helen farmerEquity, Diversity and Social Inclusion Consultant/ Research Associate Helen works with people who support people from school to boardroom, especially young people and those most underserved; as well as overrepresented people, to remove barriers and provide better access, progress and support.
Specialist in the research/ strategy/ set-up/ support of multi-partner programmes, often working across sectors, in overrepresented sectors, working with a wide range of clients from corporates to charities, to universities and employability programmes. |
jAMIE mYLESJamie is a Senior Consultant with TRIA Recruitment and has been working in the field for 6 years and within sales environments for 14 years. In this time Jamie has supported consulting firms, law firms and boutique size businesses in the forensic, legal & big data environment.
Within his time recruiting Jamie has placed a broad array of experts across minority groups within D&I as a core part of his values. In his free time, Jamie has been coaching individuals to boost their motivation, confidence and supporting their applications with jobs across various fields including single mothers returning to work and coaching different socio economic backgrounds to succeed in corporate interviews. He has also assisted women with performance coaching conversations to pursue promotions and more realistic pay increases. |
jess woodsfordJess is a professional coach, trainer and facilitator, with a passion for equality and social justice. In her role as a coach, she works with individuals and managers to become inclusive and empowering leaders.
Jess previously worked as a senior leader in the public sector, focusing on equality of opportunity to higher education. Jess is the Co-Founder / Co-Director of Inclusive Futures CIC, a not for profit community interest company, which provides coaching programmes to support underrepresented groups to access and succeed in higher education. |
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serrie chapmanSerrie is the co founder of Women’s Tech Hub Bristol. She is an experienced Engineering Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry, with a CRTS degree focused in computing for real time studies from University of the West of England. She is currently working as a Requirement Engineering Consultant.
WTH was set up to encourage local women in tech and find ways that they can develop their careers. They are also here to help local companies create a more diverse and inclusive workplace culture that benefits everyone. |
Sarah RIceSarah is a communications expert dedicated to investigating the role employment plays in all our lives. As an award-winning journalist and PR pro, her 25+ year career spans national newspapers and magazines as well as leading on comms programmes for organisations such as Bosch, The RAC and EasyGroup.
Sarah is founder and director of boutique Bristol agency Rice PR, which works with global clients focused on the future of work. Specialist areas include supporting scaling and established businesses communicate meaningfully around EDI and ESG change programmes. A former Trustee and Chair of humanitarian refugee charity Aid Box Community, she is an advocate of equality, social mobility and fair pay for all. |
"Bristol continues to dominate as a vanguard of our cultural narrative - never shying away from a challenge, no matter how disruptive. And gender equality is disruptive - in the best possible way."
JENNA HOLLIDAY, GENDER SPECIALIST
JENNA HOLLIDAY, GENDER SPECIALIST
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