FEA Summit 2022 Agenda

Systemic Change Strand Speaker Profiles

Dr Vanessa Ogden, Chair of the FEA Trustees & CEO of the Mulberry Schools Trust

Speaking at - Welcome to the 2022 fea annual summit

Dr Vanessa Ogden is CEO of the Mulberry Schools Trust (MST). Vanessa is an NLE and has undertaken a range of school turnaround work. She is an Honorary Academic at the UCL, Institute of Education and has a doctorate specialising in education policy and school improvement. Vanessa is the Chair of the Fair Education Alliance and of the Unicorn Theatre. She features in the ‘Female Lead’ book by Edwina Dunn. Vanessa has founded Global Girl Leading. In June 2015, she welcomed Michelle Obama to Mulberry School for Girls and took students to visit the First Lady at the White House.

Oghale Erikigho, FEA Youth Steering Group Member

Speaking at - Welcome to the 2022 Fea annual summit & POWER: Enabling young people to lead the movement

Oghale is a 19-year-old student at the University of Oxford reading Psychology and Philosophy. Living in an area of South London with limited access to higher education, Oghale has developed a passion for increasing attainment and widening participation. She has taken advantage of many initiatives that offered support on her Oxford journey, and now volunteers to help others take the same steps. This includes being a Youth Steering Group member at the Fair Education Alliance, a Volunteer Coach at Universify Education and a Target Oxbridge Mentor, all roles which aim to decrease educational inequality and support students who face disadvantage due to their socio-economic background.

Caroline Rowley, Head of UK, Ireland & Middle East Corporate Philanthropy, Bloomberg

Speaking at - Welcome to the 2022 Fea annual summit

Caroline works in Corporate Philanthropy at Bloomberg LP overseeing philanthropic initiatives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Caroline has worked in education for over 20 years with a particular focus on tackling educational inequality in the UK. She started her career as an apprentice at an FE College delivering online learning and later moved to the University of Lincoln managing recruitment and widening participation initiatives.

Caroline also joined the Ark Schools network supporting the development of extended schools provision before moving to Business in the Community to help develop and scale their flagship education campaign. Caroline sits on the HeadStart Advisory board.

Sir Tim Brighouse, Former Schools Commissioner for London

Speaking at - The past 10 to today: Responding to rising poverty

Sir Tim Brighouse is a well-known and influential British educator. He was the Schools Commissioner for London between 2002–2007, where he led the incredibly successful London Challenge. Tim was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours list. With Mick Waters, Tim recently co-authored ‘About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best’.

Abby Jitendra, Principal Policy Advisor, Joseph Roundtree Foundation

Speaking at - The past 10 to today: Responding to rising poverty

Abby is Principal Policy Adviser for a new programme of work on care, family and relationships for anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Previously she led the cost of living influencing and policy work for Citizens Advice, and policy and research at food bank charity Trussell Trust.

She is committed to making sure policy is informed by the experiences of people, particularly people on low incomes or who are marginalised, and is a policy expert on the domestic energy retail market, social security, and debt.

Jehan Chaudhri, Family Support Worker, Clapham Manor Primary School

Speaking at - The past 10 to today: Responding to rising poverty

Jehan Chaudhri is the Family Support Worker and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead at Clapham Manor Primary School and Nursery. She has been working in Education in Lambeth since 2000, supporting schools and families in various roles within the Local Authority and Public Health to improve education outcomes for all. She is now involved in directly supporting families in a local Primary School who are experiencing the impact of the current socio-economic climate forging links between the education system, housing and social care.

Zulum Elumogo, FEA Board of Trustees

Chairing - The past 10 to today: Responding to rising poverty

Zulum is a Special Advisor at Freuds Communications working with clients such as Vogue, Dior, Premier League, Comic Relief, Bolt and the Lewis Hamilton Commission on their communications strategies and public presentation. Goals House at UNGA New York and COP26 in Glasgow galvanising progress towards the UN sustainable development goals. 

 Zulum is a passionate advocate for the Arts and access to excellent education for all. As well as the Fair Education Alliance, he is currently on the Board of Directors at Dance Umbrella and the Barbican Centre, Europe’s largest multi-arts venue. 

 He was General Secretary (President) and Chairman of the LSE Students’ Union from 2018 to 2020, making him the first black man to hold the position in the LSE’s 125-year history. During his time as General Secretary, he was also a member of the governing Council for the London School of Economics. In October 2022, Zulum was selected as one of the 40x40 future leaders by the Black Cultural Archives in celebration of their 40th anniversary.  

Steve Rotherham, Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region

Speaking at - Place: levelling up the areas of greatest need

Raised in Kirkby in a family of eight children, Steve left school at 16 to pursue a career as a bricklayer, starting out as an apprentice. In later years he went on to work for the Learning and Skills Council.

Steve began his political career when he was elected to serve as a councillor in 2002, representing Fazakerley ward on Liverpool City Council and held the ceremonial title of Lord Mayor of Liverpool through the city’s European Capital of Culture year in 2008.

In 2010, Steve was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Liverpool Walton constituency. While in Westminster, he led campaigns for justice for the Hillsborough families; in support of blacklisted workers; for compensation for those suffering from mesothelioma and asbestosis; and to change the law on the use of old tyres on buses and coaches.

In 2017, Steve was elected as the first ever Liverpool City Region Mayor, representing 1.6m people across the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral. In his first term, he helped deliver 9,000 new jobs and 5,500 apprenticeships, set out plans for an integrated London-style transport system and set a target for the region to become net zero carbon by 2040.

On 6 May 2021, Steve was re-elected to serve a second term as Mayor with an increased majority of over 132,000 – winning almost 60% of the vote across the region. On day one of his new term in office, he delivered a £150m COVID recovery fund to create jobs and support businesses as the region emerges from the pandemic and has since secured almost three-quarters of a billion pounds from central government for transport in the region.

Graeme Duncan,CEO of Right To Succeed

Speaking at - Place: levelling up the areas of greatest need

Graeme was the first graduate hired by Teach First in 2003, teaching for two years in a secondary school serving a highly disadvantaged community, where he led the Maths Faculty. He then joined London First, a business lobby group, as Executive Assistant to the CEO, Baroness Valentine, before focusing on education and immigration projects. From there he joined Teach First in 2008 to work on fundraising, policy and public affairs before, in 2010, becoming Director of Development at Greenhouse, a charity that uses sport to engage and develop young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. In June 2014, he stepped out to set up Right to Succeed.

Dame Julia Cleverdon, FEA Board Vice-Chair

Speaking at - Place: levelling up the areas of greatest need

Dame Julia Cleverdon spent 16 years as Chief Executive of Business in the Community, and is Chair of the National Literacy Trust, and a board member of the National Citizen Service, the Careers and Enterprise Company and the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. She was formerly Chair of Teach First.

Following her 2012 government review on increasing young people's engagement in social action Julia co-founded the Campaign for Youth Social Action, known as Step Up To Serve, which was convened by HRH The Prince of Wales and launched the #iwill campaign with the support of three party leaders in November 2013. Dame Julia remains co-chair of the #iwill Movement Partnerships Board.

Amelia Collins-Patel MBE & Naomi Lea BEM, Co-founders of YL Project Hope & #iwill Ambassadors

Speaking at - POWER: Enabling young people to lead the movement

Amelia was awarded an MBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday’s Honours list for her work with Children and Young People with a particular focus upon her coronavirus response. Amelia recently completed her BA Hons degree in Theology, Mission and Ministry with a focus on children, young people and families. She is currently working as a developer for Hippo Digital, alongside which she continues to volunteer for organisations including The FEA, First Give, RSA, NSPCC and End Child Poverty. In 2018 she was nominated as an #iwill Ambassador. 

Naomi is a 24 year old trustee, activist and campaigner on all things mental health, poverty and youth voice. Her volunteering roles include being a Girl Guide leader, an #iwill Ambassador, a ChildLine councillor at NSPCC Wales and an End Child Poverty Ambassador. Having taking part in forms of social action since she was 6 years old, she credits her social action as what turned her life around and wants to ensure all young people get the same opportunity. Naomi now works for Mind as Young People's Participation & Influence Officer and in June 2022, was recognised in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours.

In 2020 Naomi and Amelia set up YL Project Hope, an entirely youth-led initiative to help combat youth loneliness. YL Project Hope provided safe spaces for young people to connect during the pandemic but also provides youth engagement consultation and training to organisations looking at what being fully youth led actually looks like.

Ellie Cross, FEA Youth Steering Group Member

Speaking at - POWER: Enabling young People to lead the movement

I’m Ellie, a member of the FEA’s Youth Steering Group. I joined the group in November 2021, and one of my biggest responsibilities, since then, is to coordinate the FEA’s Youth Bulletin. This is a monthly bulletin filled with youth perspectives on education-related news and reforms. I have worked with the group on important issues such as the Augar Review, Child Q, and the Ofsted Strategy; all of which have been publicly responded to or discussed with policymakers. Additionally, I work as Tutor Engagement Manager at the Tutor Trust, after working as an intervention tutor from 2018-2020 in several schools with large numbers of Pupil Premium. Working as a tutor ignited my passion for closing the attainment gap in Britain as well as ensuring we are offering the same opportunities to children of all backgrounds. Now, I work with hundreds of tutors to ensure they are supported enough to continue pursuing this mission.

Tasha Mhakayakora, Bite Back 2030 Youth Trustee

Speaking at - Influencing: delivering change in the current climate

Tasha is a young activist passionate about achieving fairer, more resilient and equitable food systems. She sits on several boards and advises on councils including Bite Back 2030 and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) Consumer Stakeholder Consultative Group. She is a driving force working to bring together researchers, policy makers and business leaders to collaborate in developing solutions to health inequities.

Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister

Speaking at - Influencing: delivering change in the current climate

Samuel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, commentator, and strategist. He served as Special Advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson where he held the Civil Society and Communities brief. His work included leading on the cross-government vaccine deployment confidence programme. He was the most senior black Advisor in government.

Samuel has extensive senior leadership and board experience, acting as Non-Executive Director at challenger energy firm Ovo’s Foundation arm and under former Prime Minister Theresa May he was a member of the Race Disparity Audit Advisory Board. He is the founder of Inclusive Boards, an executive headhunting firm specialising in non-executive board appointments across sectors. Samuel is an elected local councillor in Hertfordshire and brings extensive knowledge of how local and national government works.

Ravi Gurumurthy, CEO of Nesta

Speaking at - Influencing: Delivering Change In The Current Climate

Ravi is the Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. Before joining in December 2019, Ravi previously co-founded the Airbel Impact Lab at the International Rescue Committee where he was responsible for designing, testing and scaling products and services for people affected by crisis in over 40 countries. Ravi has held a number of roles in central and local government, including Director of Strategy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change and strategic advisor to the Foreign Secretary. Ravi is also a Governor of the Health Foundation, and on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund, Europe.

Anne Longfield, Chair of Commission on Young Lives

Speaking at - Influencing: Delivering Change In The Current Climate

Anne Longfield CBE is Chair of the Commission on Young Lives.  Anne has spent the last three decades working to improve the life chances of children, particularly the most vulnerable. From March 2015 to February 2021, she was Children’s Commissioner for England. She previously led a national children’s charity and has also worked on the delivery of the Sure Start programme in the Cabinet Office. 

Anne is a passionate champion for children, influencing and shaping the national debate and policy agenda for children and their families. She spent many years campaigning for better childcare, often at a time when many saw the issue as obscure or niche. 

As Children’s Commissioner, Anne spent six years championing the rights and interests of children with those in power who make decisions about children’s lives, acting as children’s ‘eyes and ears’ in the corridors of power in Whitehall and Westminster. 

Anne is also Special Advisor to the Lords Public Services Committee on their inquiry into public services and vulnerable children and is the Independent Chair of the NHS Children and Young People Learning Disability and Autism Board. 

Francine Lacqua, Bloomberg

Chairing - Influencing: Delivering Change In The Current Climate

Francine Lacqua is an award-winning London-based anchor for Bloomberg Television. She co-anchors daily weekday program “Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition,” where she provides insight on foreign policy, global markets and the top business stories of the day. She also presents “Leaders with Lacqua,” a special series where she sits down with top CEOs, entrepreneurs and public figures. Additionally, she anchors “ETF IQ Europe” weekly.

In 2018, Lacqua received the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia). The decoration, honoring Italians living abroad who promote national prestige and co-operation with the nation, was presented by the Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta on behalf of the president of Italy.

In 2013 Lacqua won ‘International TV Personality of the Year’ at the AIB Media Awards. She was previously nominated in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, she was part of the Bloomberg team that won the OPEC award for ‘Public Interest Reporting’. She has an LLB in English law from King’s College in London and earned her undergraduate degree at the Sorbonne. She is fluent in French and Italian.

Booster Strand Speaker Profiles

Gabrielle Hamill, Football Beyond Borders

SPEAKING AT- Theory Of change

Gabrielle is the Head of Impact for Football Beyond Borders, an education charity using the power of football to support disengaged students' to improve their attainment and reduce exclusions, whilst developing young people's social and emotional learning skills with the support of a trusted adult. 

Tom Ravenscroft, Skills Builder

SPEAKING AT- Routes To Scale

Tom founded the Skills Builder Partnership in 2009, whilst a secondary school teacher in Hackney. The Skills Builder Partnership brings together more than 550 schools and colleges, 130 employers and 100 other skills-building organisations around a common language and approach to building essential skills. The Partnership won the UK Social Enterprise Award for impact in 2017. 

Tom was the 2009 UK Entrepreneurship Teacher of the Year. He has served as a non-executive director of Teach First and has also been recognised as one of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs by being elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2017. He holds a BA in Economics & Management from the University of Oxford. His first book, The Missing Piece was published by John Catt Publishing in October 2017. 

Nicola Hall, Careers and Enterprise Company

SPEAKING AT- Routes To Scale

Nicola’s role as Director of Education with the Careers and Enterprise Company follows 7 years as a secondary headteacher. She started her career in industry as a graduate trainee in, and then retrained as a teacher and worked her way through both further education and secondary provision to the role of Headteacher. Nicola was headteacher of both a 14-19 Studio School and a mainstream secondary school.

Nicola can see and understand the challenges and opportunities faced by both education and continually developing industry sectors in preparing young people to make choices about their next best step. She joined CEC to influence systemic change and support the development of an impactful, world class, inclusive and sustainable careers guidance offer for young people embedded as a relevant and deliberate part of their whole education.

James Teasdale, Multiverse

SPEAKING AT- Business Planning

James is Head of Delivery Operations at Multiverse, an edtech company on a mission to create a diverse group of future leaders by building an alternative to university and corporate training through tech apprenticeships. Previously James invested in education startups at The Young Foundation and was Director of Ventures at impact venture incubator Year Here. 

Lewis Iwu, Purpose Union

SPEAKING AT-COMMUNICATING WITH INFLUENCE

Lewis Iwu is CEO and Founding Partner of Purpose Union.  Lewis specialises in advising organisations on devising and executing winning arguments and campaigns on social and environmental issues. Over the past 15 years he has worked with some of the world’s influential organisations and individuals. This includes advising Unilever, Sky, the UN, Black Equity Organisation, F1, bp, Allen & Overy, Sanofi and Pfizer. In 2021, Lewis published a Masterclass with Malala Yousafzai on how to achieve social change.   

Recently, he supported NatWest shape banking’s response to racial injustice. Lewis advised a coalition of high profile football voices to oppose the creation of a Super League and make the case for an independent regulator. He aadvised the UN on the launch of their People’s Seat initiative, which was fronted by David Attenborough. Lewis also led the national campaign to prevent the expansion of grammar schools in 2017.  

Jenny Mutter, Tutor Trust

SPEAKING AT- IMPACT MEASUREMENT, LEVELLING UP

Jenny is an experienced secondary teacher and middle leader, Jenny joined the Tutor Trust in September 2017, working alongside Matt to ensure that all tuition sessions are of the highest quality.   

After graduating from the University of Oxford, Jenny went into teaching through the Teach First programme, which fit with her commitment to improving educational opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.  She stayed in her initial placement school for five years, and undertook a variety of leadership roles, including Assistant Head of English, Head of Humanities, and leader of Key Stage 3 Assessment.  

Alex Quinn, IntoUniversity

SPEAKING AT- IMPACT MEASUREMENT, LEVELLING UP

Alex Quinn is Head of Data and Impact at Into University. He has a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and previously worked for the Zoological Society of London.

Adam Drew, IntoUniversity

SPEAKING AT- IMPACT MEASUREMENT, LEVELLING UP

Adam is Data and Impact Manager at Into University, having been at the charity for almost 5 years. He started as an education worker in the Hammersmith centre, coordinating the centre's mentoring and enrichment programmes before moving to Head Office in September 2019.

Megan Jones, Bates Wells

SPEAKING AT- LEGAL STRUCTURES

Megan is a Senior Associate in the Charity and Social Enterprise Department at Bates Wells. Megan advises charities, social enterprises and educational institutions on a variety of commercial, charity law and education law matters including formation and registration, mergers and restructuring, and constitutional and governance matters. She additionally advises on a number of specialist areas, including local authority spin outs, safeguarding and intellectual property issues. Megan is a member of the Bates Wells’ cross departmental Education Group and is an Ambassador for Bates Wells’ social mobility group, STEP. She has a particular interest in working with organisations that advance education and social mobility.

Livia Velicu, Bates Wells

SPEAKING AT- LEGAL STRUCTURES

Livia is an Associate in the Charity and Social Enterprise Department at Bates Wells and advises charities and social enterprises on a range of issues including formation and registration, intellectual property matters and establishing and operating trading subsidiaries. She is a member of the Education group and regularly assists educational organisations with queries relating to structure and governance.  

Rachel Tait, FEA

SPEAKING AT - IMPACT MEASUREMENT, GETTING STARTED

Rachel leads the FEA's evaluation and impact management strategy and supports our Award Winners with their research and evaluation. Rachel started her career at youth social action charity Student Hubs, working on everything from programme design to volunteer management to evaluation (as you do in small teams!). She saw what a big difference good impact measurement made to programme quality, relationships, staff and volunteer motivation, communications and more. She then spent four years at charity think tank and consultancy New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), where she provided strategy and impact measurement support to charity and funder clients, conducted research on topics such as what works in engaging young people in arts and culture, and led the Inspiring Impact programme which offers free impact measurement support to charities and social enterprises across the UK.

Robert Craig, Skills Builder

SPEAKING AT- FINANCIAL PLANNING

Robert is COO of Skills Builder Partnership, transforming how the world builds skills so that one day everyone builds the essential skills to succeed. Robert started his career in strategy consulting and impact investment. He holds accounting, law and data science qualifications.

Marcus Shepherd, The Wells Academy

SPEAKING AT- SELLING TO SCHOOLS

Marcus started his career doing the Teach First programme in 2011 where he worked as a Maths teacher then Head of Maths. He then became Director of Maths at a challenging school in Derby in 2014 and went on to be promoted to Assistant Principal and then Principal. He then moved to Greenwood Academies Trust where he oversaw the demerge of The Wells Academy from Nottingham Academy, becoming the founding Principal of The Wells Academy. He led the rapid and significant transformation of a historically failing school and secured record results in summer 2022 for both attainment and progress. He has now been appointed as Regional Education Director at E-ACT, commencing in Janurary 2023.   

He is also the founder of MixEd, a platform that supports, celebrates and champions mixed race and global majority educators to promote diversity in both teaching and leadership.  

Lily Eastwood, The Literacy Pirates

SPEAKING AT- DESIGNING YOUR PROGRAMME

Lily is Director of Learning at the Literacy Pirates, a charity working with young people age 9-12 who are falling behind and have fewer opportunities to improve their literacy, confidence and perseverance. She has over thirteen years experience working with and in schools in London. As a charity senior leader her specialisms are around growth, programme management and impact measurement.

In schools she was a Head of English and Head of Learning and Teaching Interventions. She is also a former Vice Chair of School Governors and a Trustee on the board of The Harbour Bristol

Abigail Moss, Power 2

SPEAKING AT- WINNING THE BID

Abigail is Director of Income and Engagement at Power2, a youth development charity that supports young people to improve their mental wellbeing and re-engage with school and their futures. Abigail has many years of experience in education, non-profit and public sector organisations, including as Director of Children Young People and the Arts at Arts Council England, Deputy CEO of National Literacy Trust and as a teacher. She’s worked in programme delivery, innovation, communications, campaigning, trading and fundraising in social mobility, education, and arts organisations, and led teams that have leveraged funding from charitable trusts, financial, legal and other professional services firms and consumer facing companies such as MacDonald’s, Nike and the BBC. She has gleaned skills and knowledge from superb colleagues and partners over many years, and through a lot of trial and the odd error!

Kristy Evers, ImpactEd

SPEAKING AT- USING DATA TO DRIVE SCALING STRATEGIES

Kristy is Director of Impact Partnerships at ImpactEd, a non-profit organisation working with both schools and education organisations to reduce the evaluation deficit across the sector. She has been with ImpactEd for over two years, leading the growth of the Impact Partnerships (IP) department from 2 to 14 people currently. The IP team works with a variety of education organisations to build their capacity for evaluation and run external evaluations.

Before joining ImpactEd, Kristy worked in a variety of roles across the education and impact evaluation sectors, from working as a teacher in Singapore to a researcher for a major educational publisher in the UK.

Daniel Rooney, FEA

SPEAKING AT- USING DATA TO DRIVE SCALING STRATEGIES

Daniel Rooney is the Membership Tools Manager at the FEA. Over the last 12 months, Daniel has worked with FEA Members and specialist developers in the co-creation of the FEA Digital Membership Tools. These tools enable members to target those who can most benefit from their initiatives, understand where other FEA members are working, and digitally connect and collaborate with other members.  

Originally from Chicago IL USA, Daniel trained and taught as a music teacher before moving to the UK in 2017. Prior to joining the FEA, Daniel led on the development of Voices Connect, a digital teacher training platform created for Voices Foundation, a UK based music education charity.  

Jen Fox, Action Tutoring

SPEAKING AT- USING DATA TO DRIVE SCALING STRATEGIES

After the position of Programme Director, Jen became Action Tutoring Interim CEO in 2017 and again in 2021, both maternity covers. As Deputy CEO, she now leads the Impact & Quality Team and strategy