by Shriya Thaker | Oct 12, 2020 | Being IMPOWER
Tarana Burke founded the “Me Too” movement in 2006 and has spent decades supporting survivors of sexual violence, especially young women of colour. My influential person for Black History Month is Tarana Burke. Tarana Burke founded the “Me Too” movement in 2006 and...
by James Swaffield | Oct 9, 2020 | Being IMPOWER
Langston Hughes was a leading poet and playwright through the turbulent times of the 1920’s in the US. Langston Hughes was a leading poet and playwright through the turbulent times of the 1920’s in the US. A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, he innovated new forms of...
by Chloe Williams | Oct 6, 2020 | Being IMPOWER
Edna Adan Ismail is the first female cabinet minister with a focus on family welfare & social development, and throughout her career has continued to be the ultimate campaigner for women’s health and an activist and pioneer in the struggle for the abolition of...
by Jon Ainger | Sep 2, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Local authority areas need to become expert at the seven-event heptathlon they now face This article first appeared in The MJ. I am a fan of athletics of all types, but I have particular reverence for multi-eventers: decathletes and heptathletes. Watching old clips of...
by Olivia Bryan | May 30, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
“IMPOWER has a very supportive attitude towards professional development and there are always opportunities on projects to take on more responsibility or work on specific objectives.” I have worked for IMPOWER since February 2017 and over the past three...
by Jon Ainger | May 18, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Organisational resilience is not about the ability to respond to a crisis – it is about capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. This article was originally published in The MJ Personal resilience has been in vogue for a while, and has been given an obvious...
