The education system has long being a battle-front in the fight for racial equality and Lavinya Stennett is right on the frontlines.

Lavinya is founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum - an organisation that believe that by delivering Black history programmes, providing teacher training and campaigning through mobilising young people, they can facilitate social change.
Lavinya is the youngest of my guests on the podcast so far, and her organisation was only formed three years ago whilst she was still at university. But in that short time she has made major inroads into changing our education system to better reflect the diversity of the UK’s population.
In this interview we discuss her own troubled path through the UK education system, her recent interactions with government, and getting endorsement from Vogue magazine and fashion designer Virgil Abloh.