Emma is a Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator, trainer and trainee counsellor. She has a specialist knowledge on gangs and child criminal exploitation, with ten years of hands-on experience operating within intervention channels to support practitioners, young people and their families

Huseyin currently engages in mentoring, providing workshops, IT training and opening corporate opportunities for young people and those at risk of entering the CJS. He strongly believes that everyone deserves a second chance. His lived experience as part of the Muslim/BAME community and being someone who left the system has given him valuable, precious and key insights into the challenges facing those we seek to serve.

Jess is Clinks' policy manager. She has worked in the voluntary sector for over ten years, having previously completed an MA in Human Rights.

Her previous work includes developing policy at the Community Development Foundation; service development and community engagement for the British Red Cross international tracing and message services; and working to support refugee and migrant community organisations.

In her spare time she volunteers for Prison Reading Groups and has previously mentored refugees.

Khatuna is a human rights campaigner with over 15 years experience of working at both national and European levels.

She has held a senior position with a national human rights organisation in Georgia providing legal aid and advocacy to the victims of human rights abuse as well as working within the projects of the OSCE, Council of Europe and the European Commission.

Since 2011 Khatuna has been working with the Zahid Mubarek Trust.

Head of research at the Prison Reform Trust, Kimmett’s research topics include conflicts about race in prisons, the experiences of minority ethnic prison staff, and the resettlement needs of BAME people in custody.

A Fair Response, a project he led at the PRT, asked people in prison to design a complaints process that would earn their trust.

He was a consultant on racial complaints to NOMS Race Review 2008.

Nazia has over 15 years of experience providing leadership and policy advice on discrimination and advancing equality, including nearly seven years at the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which gave her substantial knowledge of both policing and race equality in the criminal justice system.

Neena is Programme Director for Criminology and Sociology at St. Mary's University. Before joining St Mary’s in January 2017 she was a visiting lecturer at Westminster University teaching Criminology since 2014. She has over 15 years experience in conducting evidence-led research in the public and voluntary sectors.

As policy and research manager at Nacro (the crime-reduction charity), she was involved in influencing criminal justice policy at both local and national levels.

Patrick is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Prior to this, he was Research Officer within the Greater Manchester Probation Trust.

He has extensive experience of managing and delivering critical research and evaluation projects in relation to the efficacy of criminal justice approaches and interventions for marginalised groups and communities.

Paul has more than 25 years of experience of working in the criminal justice field, having experience of the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. He has undertaken criminal justice related work in practice, policy and research.

Raheel Mohammed is the founder and director of Maslaha and has recently been profiled as one of Britain’s 50 New Radicals in The Observer newspaper for pioneering creative change to some of society’s most difficult issues.

Sammy is a qualified social worker, social entrepreneur and founder of Wipers Youth CIC, a social enterprise dedicated to engaging and empowering disadvantaged and vulnerable young people.

His contribution as a leader and advocate within his  field has been recognised by the Youth Justice Board.

In 2015 he was invited to the Ministry of Justice to join the YJB Round Table discussions on ethnic disproportionality within the CJS and at the 2015 YJ Conference  was invited to lead a panel discussion on the same subject alongside chair of the YJB Lord McNally.

Shareen is Regional Manager - London and the North for The Forward Trust (formally RAPt - The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust). Her professional experience has given her a great understanding of the criminal justice system and partner agencies who all form part of the “reducing re-offending strategy”.