Career Connect is delighted to welcome six new trustees to our Board, to help deliver our ambitious new strategy. As part of our commitment to ensuring that young people are at the heart of what we do, two of the new appointees are young trustees.
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Each of our new trustees has been specifically selected for the expertise they will bring to help the charity increase its impact in key areas, including research and evaluation and criminal justice.
INTRODUCING OUR NEW TRUSTEES:
Nina Ma
Eloise Boye
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Eloise has a strong passion for improving people’s experiences within their workplace and creating fair selection and assessment processes.
Katie Pettifer
Lennina Ofori
Her debut novel ‘A Word From The Margins: The intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Ambition’ is published under Hatchettes’ Dialogue Books due for release in 2022. Lennina has dedicated her career to ensuring that marginalised youth and young adults are provided with equal opportunities, a level playing field and championing diversity and inclusion to encourage ambition and raised aspirations.
Tom McBride
Tom has 15 years of experience of public sector research and analysis roles. He joined EIF from the Department for Education, where he led the Strategic Analysis function providing analytical support across all areas of DfE policy. Much of his work focused on the performance of disadvantaged children, and the role of education in improving social mobility.
Dr Lauren Bellaera
Lauren has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Warwick and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, Lauren was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Her research examined the role of critical thinking in higher education.
Commenting on the new appointments, Career Connect Chair, Lorraine Dodd said: “I am delighted to welcome our six new trustees, each of whom brings a wealth of skills, knowledge, and experience to our Board. Over the next five years, Career Connect will be growing and developing to enable us to support even greater numbers of young people and adults to achieve their potential through high quality and professional career, employment and training services. The help and support of our Board of Trustees will play a crucial role in achieving this objective.”
For full information about the Career Connect Board of Trustees, please visit the About Us page