Advocate, Community Organiser, Consultant and Educator
Marai Larasi is an activist who has worked on ending violence against women and girls for 25 years, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Until May 2019, she was the Executive Director of Imkaan, a leading Black-feminist network organisation, and has also been Co-Chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. She is a founding member of the International Network to End Violence Against Women and Girls, which was created by and for Black women/women of colour. She holds an MA with Distinction in “Culture, Diaspora and Ethnicity” from Birkbeck, University of London. She was voted one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy (2019), one of the 100 most influential LGBT people of the year on the World Pride Power List (2013), and one of the 50 most influential women in London in the last 100 years (2011). Larasi has also been awarded an MBE for her work.