An International Women's Day Special: When Black Women Speak Event

A Birthmark of Africa project - Enhancing the voices of Black women in the UK and throughout the African Diaspora. This event will explore contemporary biases faced by Black women in various areas of life, their origins, entrenched legacies and, identify effective tools which can be used to overcome them. We will explore biases that are found in the following areas: education, career progression, migration, travel, health, wellbeing, social mobility to intergenerational mobility. Aspects of intersectionality will also be discussed including sexism and racism alongside providing effective tools that may be used to overcome such biases.

PANEL SPEAKERS

• Kate Peat

Speaker @CEO OF REAL INNOVATING HR

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women within the sector of education, particularly those with seen and/or unseen disabilities, their origins and identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.

• Lee Halliday-Davis

Speaker @SENIOR RESEARCHER BIRTHMARK OF AFRICA

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women in regards to their nutritional well being, particularly the impact that race has upon nutritional well being, such biases origins and identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.

• Pastor Andrea Myles

Speaker @PROPHETIC FLAMES OF FIRE MINISTRIES

Will give a devotional upon the 'power of prayer' and how prayer can be used daily as an effective tool to help women of multiple faiths to overcome biases faced by Black women.

• Anthony Brown

Speaker @2ND VICE PRESIDENT BIRTHMARK OF AFRICA

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women in regards to travel/migration, particularly the impact that race and discriminatory policies may have upon travel/migration, such biases origins and identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.

• Dr. Dawn De CoteauEdit  Delete

Speaker @CEO OF EMA SOLUTIONS

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women in regards to their career progression, particularly the impact that race has upon career progression, identify the origin of these biases and identify effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.

• Bernadette MacDonald - RaggettEdit  Delete

Speaker @MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women in regards to sexism, the different types of sexism, particularly the influence that race has upon sexism, identifying the origin of sexism, identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome this type of bias and how to deal with perpetrators.

• Andii Lindsay

Speaker @CEO OF HOLI HEALTH HACK

Will provide our female audience with effective tools that can be used to overcome biases faced by Black women in regards to the area of well-being. Particularly addressing the general well-being of self, self-love, daily patterns of well-being and any other effective tools for overall self-care.

• Priscellia Pyhia RobinsonEdit  Delete

Speaker @PRESIDENT BIRTHMARK OF AFRICA

Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women in regards to social mobility and intergenerational mobility, particularly the ways in which inequality and structural racism affect Black women's life chances, social and economic mobility, and health, the origins of these biases and identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.

• Nyah Hinds

Host @HON. SECRETARY HON. SECRETARY BIRTHMARK OF AFRICA

Nyah Hinds, a dynamic individual, is passionate about gender equality and women rights. She has diligently served as the honorary secretary of Birthmark of Africa and is also an assistance researcher within the discipline of Law and Human Rights.

• Levian Rock

Poet @H.I.M Records UK

Levian Rock is an exceptional British born African-Caribbean poet, dub-poet, artist, musician, producer and songwriter. Working upon his new poetry collection, Levian Rock is socially conscious, hugely versatile, writing on topics that range from the natural world to his personal experiences.