The Team: Founders & Managing Directors
Joy Francis
An experienced journalist, editor and trainer, Joy leads on marketing, PR, positive action and professional development programmes. Joy has written on social policy, the arts and the media for the specialist, national and black press since 1992. In 1997 she co-authored the UK’s first national survey of black mental health service users for Mind, the mental health charity while in 2000 she was runner up in the Commission for Racial Equality Race in the Media Award as editor of Public Sector. The former editor of Pride magazine is also a broadcaster and social commentator with appearances on shows such as BBC1’s Watchdog, GMTV and ITV’s London Talking. A visiting lecturer in Journalism at the London College of Communication she is also co-founder of Words of Colour Productions which provides training and industry-led consultancy in journalism, literature, scriptwriting, PR and independent publishing for emerging and new writers from BAME and socially disadvantaged backgrounds.
Paul Macey
Paul leads on community development and media training. He has over 20 years experience in community work and equalities training, is co-founder of ATRAP (the Association of Transracially Adopted People) and has an MA in Journalism from Westminster University. With ten years of journalism experience, Paul was community affairs editor at the Voice before freelancing for publications such as the Guardian, Evening Standard and Local Government Chronicle. He was an associate director at Equality Works and is an associate consultant at Marmoset Media.
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