Trustees

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and chair of writer development organization Spread The Word.

Dr Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, host, creative producer, and writer. She won the Northern Writers Award in fiction in 2017. Remembered, her debut novel, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020).

Kavita Bhanot is ECR Leverhulme Fellow at Leicester University.

Rachael Gilmour is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Much of her research focuses on issues of language, translation, and linguistic encounter in colonial and postcolonial contexts from 18th- and 19th-century South Africa to contemporary multilingual Britain.

Kimberly McIntosh is a writer and researcher and is currently Senior Policy and Research Officer at Child Poverty Action Group.

J.A. Mensah is a prose and theatre writer and a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of York. She was a Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Applied Human Rights and her plays have been produced by Pilot Theatre in York and Live Theatre in Newcastle, among others.

Anjali Ramachandran is a Director at Storythings, an audience research and content production company that works with clients like ADP, Global Payroll Association, Pearson, Tate, Francis Crick Institute, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Shakespeare Folger Library. Anjali was a co-founder of Ada’s List, a global network for women in STEM with over 10,000 members, now part of the US-based Tech Ladies community. Previously, she was Head of Innovation at PHD Media (part of Omnicom Media Group), a trustee of visual arts charity Photoworks and on the Advisory Board of Angel Academe, a group of angel investors who fund female entrepreneurs. She was one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2014 and the Financial Times/Inclusive Boards Top 100 BAME Tech Leaders in the UK in 2018. 

Florian Stadtler is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Migration at the University of Bristol. From 2010-2022 he was Reviews Editor of Wasafiri, after which he joined the Board of Trustees.