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Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Team

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Associate Director, Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Lauren Couch

People Team Officer (Interim)

Ann Singer

Diego is developing and supporting a team within Wellcome's wider Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI) team to build programmes and initiatives that help Wellcome become a more inclusive and supportive funder, and ensure our funded research is inclusive in it's design and practice.

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Diego Baptista

Dr Lilian Hunt is the Equality, Diversity &amp; Inclusion in Science and Health (EDIS) Lead in Wellcome’s Culture Equity Diversity and Inclusion team. They manage the EDIS coalition supporting its members, developing its strategy, and delivering events and research. Lilian draws on their research experience, lived experience as a queer person in science, and EDI knowledge to drive an evidence-based approach to inclusion.

EDIS Lead

Dr Lilian Hunt

Teresa Cisneros is working on the collaborative co-development of Principles for Inclusive Research &amp; Design Practices for Wellcome. She is from the Mexico-Texas border, a place where she learned the practice of 'If you are okay, then I am okay' which informs her personal and work life. The majority of her practice has been to rethink and co-reconstruct systems in the cultural sector that exclude people from participating on 'their' terms. She is a keen advocate for health and social justice.

Senior Practice Manager

Teresa Cisneros

Gearóid Maguire is a Practice Manager in Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team. He leads on a range of external programmes and projects to make Wellcome a more inclusive funder, where those we fund are more representative of the global population. His background includes fundraising, sales and training lead within Wellcome's Research Funding department.

Practice Manager

Gearóid Maguire

Sophie Demellweek is a Senior Practice Officer in the 'Research and Funding Equity' arm of Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team. With a background in life sciences and HIV-related funding, she works on projects designed to make Wellcome a more inclusive funder. As the first in her family to attend University, Sophie is passionate about issues related to socio-economic equity.

Senior Practice Officer

Sophie Demellweek

Robin Craig is the Communications and Administration Officer for Equality, Diversity &amp; Inclusion in Science and Health (EDIS). He supports the running of the EDIS coalition and manages its Twitter, LinkedIn and mailing list. His background is in journalism, research, accessibility and trans healthcare advocacy.

EDIS Comms & Administration Officer

Robin Craig

EDIS Business Manager

Fola Afolabi

Sarah leads the internal Organisational Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Team, focused on supporting Wellcome to be an inclusive employer. She is passionate about social justice and people-centred and progressive HR practices, and is determined that Wellcome becomes a place where everyone can thrive. She has enjoyed a varied career in the non-profit sector, from working to speed up cancer research by crowdsourcing, to organising events in a foreign policy think tank.

Organisational CEDI Lead

Sarah Christie

Fon Browndy is a Senior Practice Manager in the Organisational Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team, focused on embedding equitable and inclusive practice into everything we do at Wellcome. Fon is evangelical about building healthy organisational cultures and has a background in people development, including management and leadership, having worked in People and HR teams for almost 15 years. As part of this learning and development journey Fon has also lead strategic programmes on social responsibility, community engagement and volunteering.

Fon Browndy

Sophie Bevster is a Practice Manager in Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team. She leads on a range of internal projects focused on making Wellcome a more fair and inclusive employer, including working to close our gender and ethnicity pay gaps, and improving Wellcome's internal culture. Sophie's background is in project management, theatre production and script-writing.

Sophie Bevster

Jack Snow is a Practice Manager in Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity &amp; Inclusion team. He leads on a range of internal programmes and projects to make Wellcome a fairer and more inclusive employer so that our staff will be representative of the places we work, able to be themselves and supported to be their best. Jack's background is in policy, partnerships and events, as well as art history and museum studies.

Jack Snow

Katie Ellery

Farrah leads the Insights and Learning function in Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team. She is a passionate advocate for collectives, networks, and communities of practice – Farrah played a key role in formalising the UK Science Festival Network and recently co-founded the New Fables Collective. Farrah's background is in public engagement, spanning almost 15 years experience in designing, delivering, and funding initiatives that connect the public to science and society.

Insights and Learning Lead

Farrah Nazir

Kasifa Khalid supports Wellcome's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team by surfacing and feeding insights, learning and best practice from outside Wellcome. Previously, Kasifa created training content for scientific writing and publishing workshops. She is passionate about using human-centred design to create accessible, inclusive and equitable products, services and systems. Her experiences in academia and as a life-long third culture individual, feeds into her passion for open science and increased visibility for researchers from the global south.

Best Practice & Advising Manager

Kasifa Khalid

Insights & Learning Manager

Joey Parker

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