Chief Executive
jeremy@actionforraceequality.org.uk
Jeremy Crook OBE is the Chief Executive of ARE.
He has over 35 years’ experience of promoting diversity and inclusion and developing practical solutions in the public, private and civil society sector.
His current roles include: Metropolitan Police Service External Advisory Board (Chaired by the Commissioner); GLA Violence Reduction Unit Partnership Reference Group (Chaired by Mayor of London); West Ham United Foundation (Trustee); HMPPS External Advice and Scrutiny Panel (Chair); EQUAL National Independent Advisory Group (Vice Chair) and Thames Water’s Customer Challenge Group.
Missing in the media: the fight to cure Missing White Woman Syndrome
In this ARE guest piece, budding journalist and creative, Hayley Mills-Amissah, examines the disproportionately loud spotlight cast on cases of missing white women by the media. Her article, originally posted for the Green Room, features interviews with a range of women, including ARE’s Tebussum Rashid. Here’s an extract… UK organisations are advocating for change in…
ARE Guest blog: Inspire Brighter Futures in young people
In our latest guest blog, Diane Spence, founder and manager of social enterprise Genesis Sun, which is currently one of eight organisations taking part in a deep dive of the youth employability landscape for our Infrastructure Resilience Programme, shares her work delivering quality mentoring services to young people. Here at Genesis Sun, our mission is…
Black Women celebrating and passing on the Baton
The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.” Serena Williams I want you to close your eyes and think of all the women whom you admire; think about why you admire them…
Representation Matters: Black women as entrepreneurs
ARE Associate and Communications Advisor, Alex Louis recently supported Black women and other business leaders under-represented as entrepreneurs on our Inclusive Entrepreneurs and Enterprise Support Programmes with Islington Council. In this blog, she takes a look back at her own route to becoming a business leader. In 1993 I started my own business. To say…