Inez has proven herself to be an inspiring character and an
adept community organiser, from a remarkably young age.
She grew up in Edmonton, north London, before spending her
formative years attending secondary school in Hackney. At the
tender age of 13 she was already mentoring students in the
year below her, facilitating events that promoted innovative
learning. She was also part of a group of 15 young people who
organised a learning festival in Birmingham for over 200 pupils
and she went on to secure a Youth Leadership Qualification for
her efforts.
Inez has gone on to lead on a number of high profile projects,
including a self‑designed initiative to reach out and offer
comfort to young female prisoners in local institutions. She also
had an important role in the public campaign to secure jobs for
Hackney residents during the 2012 Olympics.
As an alumnus of the Social Mobility Foundation, Inez has
also been afforded the opportunity to work in some top
organisations, each of which has seen and benefitted from her
potential. Aside from working in the office of opposition leader
Ed Miliband MP, alongside his diary secretary, Inez also spent a
week working at The Observer/Guardian.
While she was there, during the infamous London riots of 2011,
journalists at the paper struggled to get close enough to cover
the story. Inez was personally called upon by the editor, John
Mulholland, to return to her north London roots and be his
‘woman on the inside’. She duly obliged and her article was
published as a double page spread in The Observer, as well as
on the Guardian website. She would return to write for the site on
three separate occasions, including a powerful personal reflection
on the changes in London since the death
of Stephen Lawrence.
Unsurprisingly, given her experiences,
Inez is an accomplished and confident
public speaker. She was a Grand
Finalist at the Jack Petchey Speak Out
competition, and was even invited by
John Bercow MP – the Speaker of the
House – to address an audience in
the Speaker’s Room at the Commons.
Despite a busy university schedule, she
has a number of mentoring commitments
and also teaches debating each week at
a comprehensive school in Bristol.
Not content with being an active and
authoritative voice for her generation,
she is also clearly dedicated to giving the
next generation one of its own.
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