Race Equality Network
OUR REN WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Below is some of our information, more will be available soon with the new website
The Race Equality Network (REN) at King’s College London was created and is run by staff and PGR students who volunteer their time to do this on top of their daily jobs. We have also done a lot of work with PGT & UG students on different projects.
COMING UP!
REN ESEA Monthly (online) meetings
17th January 2024
Interested in joining? Email RaceEqualityNetwork@kcl.ac.uk
Events
TRAINING
Active Bystander Training for REN members - training delivered by the amazing Besean
This training is simply AMAZING. We HIGHLY recommend that you join if you can.
Date in February to be confirmed (in person event)
REN Community Group Mixers
REN ESEA Monthly (online) meetings - 17th January 2024
Black Community at King's Monthly (online) mixer - 2024 dates to be confirmed soon
REN SA (South Asian) Community (online) mixer - 2024 dates to be confirmed soon
REN Latin X & Hispanic Community (online) mixer - 2024 dates to be confirmed soon
REN Multi-ethnic Group (online) mixer - 2024 dates to be confirmed soon
2024
REN Book Club - information about this coming up soon!
The Team
The REN Committee runs and does the day-to-day work of the network. We are King's staff and PGR students who volunteer on top of our jobs to run REN. We are:
Aisha, Ebony, Gilang, Jenny, Jonathan, Laura, Liang, Mariam, Saffy, Tamara and Fai
REN Senior Supporters
REN is a King's College London community network. All community networks at King's have, what we call, 'senior supporters'. We call them that because they attend many important senior management meetings at King's and can represent us. We turn to them for mentorship advice and support from time to time. We are grateful to our King's Senior Supporters:
Forever REN
We are still in contact with many people who used to work at King's and were part of REN but have now left. These are people who have contributed greatly to our network. We maintain collaboration opportunities with many of these key people outside of King's. We want to thank the following REN family who have now left:
- Whitney Robinson - former REN co-chair
- Rebecca Brown - former REN committee member
- Mike Bankole - former REN committee member
- V.J. Sidhu - former REN committee member
- Rajbir Hazelwood - former REN senior supporter
- Olivia T. - former REN committee member
- Alexandria Mitchell - former REN co-chair
- Olivia Hylton-Pennant - former committee member
- Jalal Afhim - former REN co-chair
Wider network
The REN wider network are King's College London staff and students (PGR) who are not involved in the day-to-day running of the network but may still want to support the network, keep informed of REN news, attend some of the events/meetings. Sometimes wider network members also want to take part in/work on/lead a REN project.
This is a very flexible way of being part of and enjoying the network.
If you want to join the network, please email RaceEqualityNetwork@kcl.ac.uk
Collaborations
The network is a King's College London staff and PGR student network. However, we have worked with many UG and PGT students also on many different projects across the years. Our events are open to everyone at King's and we have also, for example, offered UG & PGT students the opportunity to chair many of our events with high profile speakers (BAFTA winners, authors, actors, directors etc) in the past.
A brief history
We are currently updating our website, so for now here's a brief history of some of our achievements (we will publish the full history, future events and projects soon)
- Black excellence at King’s
- South Asian excellence at King's
- Lecture by author, historian, Bafta and MOBO-award winning social scientist AKALA, followed by a q&a
- Amma Asante MBE film screening, followed by an interview with the Bafta-winning Film Director & Writer
- Harriet Tubman - Interview with Harriet Tubman's descendants, her great great nephew Dr A.J. Brickler III and his son Dr Alex Brickler IV
- Adhay Rustum Sopori - A musical afternoon with Santoor Maestro & Composer Adhay Rustum Sopori
- Holocaust Memorial events with Roxzann Baker from the Wiener Holocaust Lirbrary, Dr Anita Peleg (daughter of Survivor Naomi Blake) and Survivor Ruth Barnett MBE
- The REN Show
- Windrush - a conversation on value and identity with Patrick Vernon OBE and Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin
Contact & how to join
To contact/join the network, please email RaceEqualityNetwork@kcl.ac.uk