Nusrat Faizullah

works with emerging and established organisations to support them to tackle social issues and systemic injustice. Her work is concerned with: understanding and disrupting power; creating a more identity informed system; and nurturing leadership. She currently works with and advises many grantmakers including the Big Lottery, Lankelly Chase Foundation, Esmee Fairbairn, Nike Sports for Good and Help Refugees. She has also worked with organisations across many areas including health, criminal justice, homelessness, LGBTQI+ rights, refugees and forced migration, and education.

She is currently working with RFK Human Rights UK to create a human rights education programme for schools. She has also been working with RTI an organisation in Greece that addresses trauma and psychosocial support for refugees around the design of their programmes and their strategies and materials for growth. She is also currently supporting grassroots organisations such as Stopwatch an organisation looking at fair and accountable policing and racial justice in the UK, Leeds Tidal an organisation supporting activism around social and environmental justice, and the Healing Justice Collective a community healing organisation addressing harm and violence experienced by marginalised communities.

Nusrat has a background in education and was part of the original cohort of Teach First participants and also developed projects at the Young Foundation a centre for Social Innovation in the UK. She is currently a trustee for Platform an ecological and social justice organisation based in London.