The AoC’s consultant on equality, diversity and inclusion believes many colleges still need to put their words into action when it comes to really championing diversity.
Ellisha Soanes, the Association of College’s consultant on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), believes that many colleges are “just paying lip service” to the issue with their policies, and now need to “walk the talk” as she has done.
Diversity is Soanes’s life passion. As a lecturer and later EDI lead at West Suffolk College, Soanes brought her students up close and personal with ethnic minority political pioneers, a military hero and a footballing legend to inspire them to aim high.
She also made a name for herself by teaching of black history not just during black history month, but across the year.