Guided by her unwavering commitment to racial equity and social justice, Katrina is the founding director of UNJUST C.I.C. After reading Social and Political Sciences at Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge, Katrina consciously developed a career focused on assisting the betterment of others.

With a career in local government and the voluntary sector, Katrina understands the social issues impacting people, especially Black communities. She is actively compelling the State to cease its discriminatory activities and begin upholding its part of society’s social contract.

In 2015, Katrina began volunteering to provide community scrutiny of the policing power of Stop and Search. For three years she chaired Islington Stop and Search Community Monitoring Group. She has also held the vice-chair and chair positions on The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime Pan-London Stop and Search Community Monitoring Network. Katrina has experience sitting on local community partnerships and acted as an executive member of The Islington Safer Neighbourhood Board.

Formerly the chief executive of StopWatch, a national research and action organisation specialising in stop and search policing, Katrina has overseen the publication of several evidence-based reports. She led a range of advocacy initiatives aimed at influencing policy and practice. A confident and effective communicator, Katrina provided oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee -The Macpherson Report: twenty-one years on inquiry in June 2020.

In addition to public speaking at events and international conferences, Katrina has written opinion pieces for The Guardian, published an article in The Institute for Public Policy Research's Progressive Review, and as a media representative, participated in live and pre-recorded TV and radio interviews on BBC news, The Sunday Politics Show, Channel4 news, The Independent, The Voice, regional national and international channels.

With her wealth of experience, Katrina is firmly positioned to create and lead an effective team that disrupts the status quo and achieves UNJUST's vision for a society free from racial discrimination. Utilising established relationships with elected officials, policymakers, lawyers, academics, civil society partners, and impacted communities, UNJUST is committed to undertaking activities that shift the public's thinking and influence the decisions made by officials and statutory agencies.

An advocate for drug law reform, Katrina was recently a trustee of Transform Drug Policy Foundation. She is also a member of the Independent Scrutiny, and Oversight Board established to oversee the implementation of the National Police Race Action Plan. Katrina won the Criminal Justice Alliance 2022 Award for Outstanding Individual and was awarded By-Fellow status by Hughes Hall College in 2020.

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