26 year old teacher/farmer/social-entrepreneur.
Having completed a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics I joined the highly competitive graduate scheme Teach First and was dropped right in at the deep end, teaching in a challenging East London school - hands down the best thing I've ever done. Completing the two year programme I took a job on a farm that works with young people at risk of exclusion, getting them out of their environments down to Wiltshire for intensive farming, family and therapy - the outcomes where amazing. Inspired by the difference social enterprise can have, I came back to London to set up my own one, The Brilliant Club. I wanted to address my single biggest frustration from my time in the classroom and widen access to top universities. The UK has one of the lowest rates of social mobility and university access is a significant contributing factor to this. So with the simple, scalable and sustainable model of recruiting and placing PhD students in schools serving low participation communities to deliver university-style teaching to high performing pupils I am now working hard to achieve our mission of an education system in which young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are proportionately represented at highly selective universities.
That's me.
