Ethnic Minority Women’s Forum

Read a powerful and moving personal blog from our Comms Lead, as she raises her voice to reclaim the narrative this #WorldHijabDay ⁦@WorldHijabDay⁩ linkedin.com/posts/ethnic-m…

Today marks the 12th annual @WorldHijabDay, founded by @NazmaHKhan - Join us in standing side-by-side with all women who choose to be #VeiledInStrength 🧕🏻🧕🏼🧕🏽🧕🏾🧕🏿

Today, we reflect on the extraordinary life and contributions of #BenjaminZephaniah; literary luminary & influential voice for #SocialJustice. His words have inspired & challenged us to create a world of equality and understanding. Thank you for your profound impact. 📖✨

Check out the #CrossingThresholds blogs to read about various inspiring topics to aid you as you navigate your career. thresholds.co.uk/blog

"Taking the course helped me feel a lot more confident, it helped me understand how to structure my answers when writing applications & enabled me to think on my feet when answering questions during interviews" - @ellagg_ reflecting on her #CrossingThresholds experience

Today, we have the privilege of learning tips & tricks to help with building our authentic, personal brand from our amazing colleagues at #CrossingThresholds To find out more about their brilliant work, please visit their website at thresholds.co.uk

Calling all EM civil servants! The EMWF blog is BACK and we want to hear from you! After a brief hiatus (sorry) our newsletter is back and we're looking for EM voices to share their experiences of the #civilservice, whatever that means to you. DM us if you have a story to tell!

We are so excited to be holding the second event in our lecture series🌟. We'll be joined by Fast Streamer and TikToker Boni Odoemene who will be presenting on Black Women from Irish History☘. Tickets on sale till midnight tonight - DM us for details!

Are you celebrating #KetanjiBrownJackson with us today? If you haven't heard the news yet, she's the first #BlackWoman in its 233-year history to serve as #Justice in the #SupremeCourt of the USA. Yes, that sound you hear is the #glassceiling breaking! youtube.com/watch?v=Snfm2D…

On mentoring and sponsorship, the the GSE profession does have a mentoring service called 'Connect' – Rameya recommends taking a look or approaching people a grade or two above you

🔬Find out more about getting into STEM here: …mentscienceandengineering.blog.gov.uk

Everyone tackles being the only EM in the room differently – Ellie’s mantra is to speak out, be herself, any push back in return is their loss rather than hers!

Ellie - Going to an all girls school really gave me ability to go into STEM without the preconception of it being a male dominated area.

Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu - the United Kingdom's first sickle-cell and thalassemia nurse specialist, helping establish the Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Counselling centre.

Shirley Jackson - physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Alice Ball - an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century

Sir PV - to quote Desmond Tutu “Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realise our need of one another.”. We can't solve problems if we are not diverse!

Only 16% of people coming out of university with Engineering degrees are women - Sir PV

Our STEM mythbusters is about to start! We're very excited to welcome Ellie Gomes-Callus, Rameya Arulanantham and Sir Patrick Vallance !

I had incredibly exciting week, ending in a magnificent thanksgiving service at Church African Style. Celebrating my OBE investiture from the Princess Royal for Services to Diversity and Inclusion! I now have a larger platform, gravitas and clout to effect greater change #proud