Accountability Partners

Our Accountability Partners have been appointed to provide constructive challenge and guidance to the programme, sharing their expertise from their professional and personal experiences to help shape and inform the direction and priorities. They will be in post for a three-year term.

Some Accountability Partners will also attend Board meetings and contribute to the decision-making process by providing current knowledge, critical thinking and analysis to increase the confidence in decisions taken.

Having representation from the Accountability Partners in the University’s decision making processes for Reparative Futures is vital to the co-creation principle of this programme.

Our partners

• Charnelle Barclay

  Charnelle Barclay works to organise communities and partnerships for racial equity. She has worked with churches, developing partnerships for impactful initiatives and supporting their local communities to act on issues important to them. Alongside this, she developed and facilitated training workshops for stakeholders and young people focusing on racial justice.
• Barbara Brown

  Dr Barbara Brown is a strategist with an established portfolio of facilitating cultural and systemic change for global majority staff and students. With a heart for changing outcomes and ‘outing’ disparity, Barbara currently holds Board, consultancy and advisory roles in health, academia and the charity sector.
• Desmond Brown

  Desmond Brown has spent the past decade championing global majority issues in the criminal justice system in Bristol, the Southwest and nationally. With his own CIC, he supports children, young people and families impacted by race inequality and has served on several panels and boards to advance racial justice.
• Anndeloris Chacon

  Anndeloris Chacon has years of professional and volunteering roles in Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and England. She has worked to improve understanding of diseases and patients’ lives, stands as a Union Rep for the Royal College of Nurses, and, as CEO, increases the visibility and representation of Bristol Black Carers.
• Kaye Christopher Grant

  With qualifications including MSc Public Health and teaching, Kaye Christopher Grant promotes health equity and fair education. She nurtures disadvantaged families to improve health and learning. As a Bristol University Graduate, Kaye’s roles for accountability: NHS Public Health Beacon Leader; Border Health Protection Practitioner; School Appeals Panel Member; Researcher UNICEF Child Unit, Jamaica; Programme Manager.
• Julian Davis

  Julz Davis is a disruptor who, with his own think-and-do tank Curiosity UnLtd, works to celebrate Black history and memorialise the Bristol Bus Boycott through events, movie and music. He has lead on strategy, project delivery and business development to make Bristol a place for People of Colour to thrive.
• Michael Earle

  Michael Earle is a trained social worker and mental health practitioner with over 23 years’ experience. His work advocates for underrepresented people’s access to mental health care, including sitting on a race advisory board, speaking to underrepresented communities about donating blood and organs, and teaching about the importance of wellbeing.
• Theron Gordon

  Theron Gordon uses his roles in sports communities to implement engagement opportunities for underrepresented young people. He sits on several Black-based sports boards and works with many cricket clubs across Bristol and Gloucestershire in EDI working groups and inclusion representation. He additionally serves as a Performance Coach for the UOB Cricket Club.
• Delano Gournet-Moore

  Delano Gournet-Moore works with grassroots non-profit and national bodies to improve equity for children and young people of African, Caribbean and Asian heritage. His posts have included digital and youth engagement, leading inclusion for different organisations, and engaging with children across the Southwest who experience racial trauma.
• Korane Idarousse

  Korane Idarousse works to connect underrepresented students with communities and businesses. She has developed strategies for youth recruitment, engagement and retention, co-led EDI taskforces and designed social impact reports, campaigns and strategic work. Since founding a consultancy, she helps businesses and organisations generate positive social impact for young people.
• Tracie Jolliff

  Tracie Jolliff established her own consultancy, JTC The Knowledge Group, to work with high profile stakeholders to progress inclusion, equity and justice. She further works with the NHS Leadership Academy to implement inclusive leadership and EDI, and sits on boards concerned with race equity in health and care.
• Jomo Leaver

  Jomo Leaver has a strong history of advocating for inclusion in sports, working in both Ghana and at the University of Bristol. In the past two years, Jomo has developed schemes and initiatives to get more underrepresented students active through sport and identifying barriers to Black participation in sports.
• Orville Lynch

  A teacher of two decades, Orville Lynch strives to improve young people’s motivation and performance. Through various roles in education, he helped establish supportive school programmes and set up two supplementary schools to serve the community. He also sits on St. Mary Redcliffe’s charity board and speaks at church services.
• Temba Mahari

  For over 10 years, Temba Mahari has campaigned for racial equality. Throughout his roles as EDI lead and outreach worker for the social justice system, Temba executed strategies to enhance diversity and inclusivity, supported those affected by inequality in the criminal justice system, and collaborated with stakeholders to combat inequalities.
• Forward Maisokwadzo

  Having been a refugee journalist for 20 years, Forward Maisokwadzo now works in the criminal justice system. His work includes building trust and accountability between police and public, working with organisations to centre the voices of refugees, and holding the Council accountable to making Bristol a City of Sanctuary.
• Maya Mate-Kole

  Maya Mate-Kole has over a decade’s experience in youth, community and social work. She consults in relation to system change and race equity, advocating for inclusion and co-production with young people, and manages Mwanzo Project, her Black-led grassroots organisation supporting young People of Colour at risk of offending the law.
• Denise A. Miller

  Denise A. Miller has an extensive background in education, community engagement and mental health advocacy. She has worked as a school teacher and educational psychologist, supporting the needs of children who are marginalised, disabled or have special education needs, and stays involved in community engagement and historical narrative development.
• Lakhraj Minhas

  Dedicated to serving underrepresented groups in Bristol, Lakhraj Minhas has shaped the EDI strategy and inclusivity of many organisations. She utilises her law training to implement inclusion in global business strategies and governance mechanisms, and additionally sits on several boards and charities concerned with equity.
• Shawnett Morgan

  In her 22 years as a qualified teacher, Shawnett Morgan has had many roles including a teacher of mixed-ability classes and leadership responsibilities for EDI, physical education and geography and her school’s National Education Union representative. She continues her passion for racial equity alongside her Masters studies.
• Tracy O’Brien

  Tracy O’Brien has almost 20 years’ teaching experience and over 4 years’ education consultancy and community engagement. Throughout her career, she has developed lessons about Bristol’s unspoken history, created resources for schools and the public, and cowritten an educational textbook on Bristol’s role in the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved people.
• Damilola Okeyoyin

  Damilola Okeyoyin’s career has been dedicated to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Both at the University of the West of England and within volunteering positions in England and abroad, she leads initiatives to expand Widening Participation and supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their career goals.
• Nia Samuels

  Nia Samuels champions fair and equal opportunities for students across diversified backgrounds. She has participated in art exhibitions to showcase young Black art, worked at schools and colleges to understand the fundamentals of active participation, and written articles on the performance of race, sex and class in contemporary society.
• Vernon Samuels

  Vernon Samuels works in sports and mental health sectors to support global majority young people. He has worked with sports organisations as a school facilitator, athlete and mentor, motivational workshop leader and school assembly speaker. He currently liaises between young people and organisations to address concerns about race equity.
• Afzal Shah

  Afzal Shah has over 10 years’ experience in leading and participating in community-based projects. He has created partnerships and networks, including the University, to drive equity and social change, worked as a City Councillor for climate change and sustainability, and delivered extensive workshops on public sector procurement and tendering.
• Gift Chinwendu Tazamu

  Gift Chinwendu Tazamu began campaigning for equity at university, volunteering with NGOs to carry out business projects in underdeveloped areas. As an alumni, she mentors students to do the same and works to develop communities in both the UK and Nigeria through entrepreneurship, civic engagement and leadership.