Melissa Lawrence, Chief Executive

Melissa has 20 years’ experience working in the non-profit and corporate sector.

Melissa previously worked for a social mobility charity, working with businesses in the financial, professional and related services sector to help them develop their corporate social responsibility, diversity and talent pipeline programmes. This included managing the award-winning City of London Business Traineeship programme for over 10 years.

At the Foundation, Melissa's key focus is to shape the charity through awareness raising, leadership and strategic planning.

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Catriona Salisbury, Placement and Training Programme Manager

Catriona is responsible for coordinating the Foundation’s new Summer Stars training and placement scheme. With previous experience as both an administrator and an office manager, Catriona has a degree in French from Queen Mary University in London and spent a year studying at Université de François Rabelais in France.

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Gabrielle Thuesday, Programme Manager

Joining the foundation in July 2019 as Programme Manager, Gabrielle(Assoc CIPD) is responsible for managing our flagship PR Training and Mentoring programmes. 

Gabrielle previously worked as a Student Support and Event Manager within an Aesthetic Training Academy. This role involved managing all operations of their non-accredited courses and providing all round support to students in achieving their course goals. A PR and Advertising graduate and now Associate member of the CIPD, Gabrielle's core interests lie in people development within BAME communities and communications. 

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Kwabena Agyare, Programme Administrator (intern)

Kwabena joined the Foundation July 2019 and is responsible for supporting the programme delivery team in achieving their aims and objectives. Kwabena previously worked at VOX Global, a strategic communications firm in Washington DC, developing public affairs campaigns for entertainment, healthcare, technology and finance clients. In this role, he also worked on diversity and inclusion initiatives for the firm and developed in interest in increasing opportunities for people from minority backgrounds in the PR and communications industry.

Kwabena highly values global experiences and has studied and worked in Ghana, the US, France, the Netherlands, Belgium & Kenya. He is excited to leverage his 2 years of experience in public relations and public affairs to help the trainees find their footing in the industry. 

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