The Team: Founders & Managing Directors
Joy Francis
An experienced journalist, project manager and trainer, Joy leads on marketing, PR, positive action and professional development programmes. Joy has written and broadcast on social policy, the arts and the media for the specialist, national and black press and BBC radio 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 Awards 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 former visiting lecturer in Journalism at the London College of Communication she is also co-founder of Words of Colour Productions (www.wordsofcolour.co.uk), 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 Macey leads on the development and implementation of community engagement and implementing equalities solutions. Paul has over 20 years experience in the fields of community development, equalities and journalism as a practitioner, consultant and trainer. As a result Paul has developed successful models in the implementation of sustainable actions in community engagement and tackling discrimination through Equality Impact Assessments. He has worked with a range of statutory and voluntary organisations including Transport for London, Oxfam and a number of health trusts. Co-founder of ATRAP (the Association of Transracially Adopted People), Paul has an MA in Journalism from Westminster University. During his journalism career 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.
