Natalia-Nana is the Co-Chair of Goldsmiths, University of London's Strategy Board. Previously, she has been a Trustee of the Anti-Racist Alliance, a local anti-racism charity and a Steering Group Member of Women in Dev. They are a specialist in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Liberation, who blends their EDIL expertise with their lived experience as a bi-cultural, femme woman of colour with (non-visible) disabilities in their work supporting organisations and individuals in their journeys of Decolonisation, Equity and Inclusion. They centre Anti-Racism in their EDIL work, advising organisations and supporting leadership in journeys of inclusion and anti-racism, with organisations as varied as Credit Suisse, Samaritans, St Paul’s Cathedral, the NHS, and local community groups.

This Black History Month we are hosting a talk which invites and challenges us to consider Higher Education through a racial lens. Hosted by Natalia-Nana Lester-Bush, this lecture will offer a considered critique of how race and racism interact with some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities of the Higher Education experience. We will explore why, in a time of mass economic and educational crisis, race is the issue University staff, students and members of the wider Oxford community should be engaging with, and how white colleagues can - and should - be empowered and motivated to lead as allies to contribute to understanding and addressing the complex challenges the sector faces.