Are we there yet?

Race equality in our lifetime: how are we doing?

A talk for International Women's Week

from Rowntree's Visionary Karen Chouhan

 Wednesday 7th March 2007

7pm at Coventry Peace House

311 Stoney Stanton Road, CV6 5DS

 

"It was brilliant to listen to a dynamic woman talking about really important issues.This is what the Women's Festival should be about. An inspiration."

 

"I was very impressed with the depth of Karen's information and her overall empathetic approach to communities"

Karen lives in Leicester with her husband and three children - a successful Asian woman who combines campaigning, politics and organising, with caring for a family and community work.

In 2005, Karen beat 1600 other applicants to become one of seven “visionaries” chosen by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for five year's financial support in a ground-breaking project aimed at changing the world.

Karen's vision is for a radical overhaul of Britain's race equality framework. She believes that we will only have genuine equality when black communities are able to directly set the race agenda. Karen was previously the Chief Executive of the 1990 Trust, which is a national NGO and charity providing advice on capacity building and race equality delivery in Black communities. She stills works very closely with them.

Karen has been building the concept of PUSH-UK, to be aligned with Rev Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Alliance in the States. PUSH-UK will look at the economic background to the current race dialogue and study the economic inequalities between white and black communities in the UK

She is also chair of the £19.5 million Peepul Centre in Leicester - a huge new multi-cultural arts and leisure centre, conceived and created by the Belgrade Baheno Asian Women's group as a millennium project.