Ellisha is an award-winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Specialist. She is also Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for several colleges and adult education institutions in East Anglia. As a lecturer Ellisha has worked in the education sector for the past 7 years, and in the health and social care/ Public Health sector for over 10 years.
Ellisha is an advocate for change on social mobility and was highly influential as one of the first Further Educational lecturers to facilitate Black History across the year in the UK. Her accolades include author on the list creating one of the first Black History interactive books that shows positive representation in book Elimu Little Book of knowledge, which is being used across schools and the award-winning Power of Stories Black Panther Exhibition
She also mentors’ young people in the community and collaborates with businesses and communities to empower others and create new opportunities. Ellisha has worked closely with the Department of Education, and has supported with the equality act legalisation review and continues to do so on creating changes, written educational articles and has been featured in national journals as column writer and papers such as The Guardian and was recently honoured in Glamour magazine for being Top 15 Trailblazer Black Women in the UK, and is United Nations Women’s delegate.
