In the black community there’s a saying that we have to work 10 times harder to get the same results. I’ve been lucky in that I had a successful athletics career, competing at javelin for Team GB, and great opportunities such as scholarships to study a master’s in Florida and work placements at Goldman Sachs. But no matter what I was doing, I never saw anyone else who looked like me.

This frustration came to a head in 2016, during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. I felt like I couldn’t change anything. At the same time, I noticed so many companies saying they couldn’t find diverse talent, blaming it on a pipeline problem like we just didn’t exist. It was infuriating. I had black professional friends who were unemployed for no reason.

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