HONOURS & AWARDS
I’m proud of all I am achieving, and I will keep shining into the future…
2024
2024 Fellow | Bio-Leadership Fellowship, 11 March 2023 | The Bio-Leadership Project | READ MORE
2023
The Slow Factory 2023 Fellowship | The Slow Factory, 11 March 2023 | The Slow Factory | READ MORE
2021
TEDx Speaker | TEDxLadbrokeGrove 2021 | TEDxLadbrokeGrove | READ MORE
Shortlisted for Best Storytelling by An Individual with A Rare Condition | Rare Disease UK, 5 April 2021 | Rare Disease UK | READ MORE
2020
Shortlisted (Final 8) Nominee: Lifetime Achiever Award | National Diversity Awards, 22 July 2020 | Inclusive Companies | READ MORE
Judge | Next Creative Leaders, 20 April 2020 – October 2020 | The One Club for Creativity | READ MORE
2020 Winner: Community Person of The Year | Visionary Honours, 6 May 2020 | Visionary Arts Foundation UK | READ MORE
Judge | DUREX Jury – New Blood Award, 20 Jan. 2020 – July 2020 | D&AD | READ MORE
2019
Judge | Getty Images Creative Bursary – Disability Stories, 18 Sept. 2019 – 3 Dec. 2019 | Getty Images | READ MORE
2019 Agents of Change Power List | MT, 22 May 2019 | Management Today | READ MORE
2018
Top 10 Trailblazers for Change in 2018 (NO. 8) | Campaign, 7 December 2018 | Campaign Magazine | READ MORE
The Dots and Squarespace’s 100 Creative Leaders With Social Heart | The Dots, 19 September 2018| The Dots | READ MORE
2018 WINNER: DIMA 50 Male Advocate for Equality in Marketing & Media | DIMA (Diversity in Marketing & Media) Summit, July 2018 | DIMA | READ MORE
2018 Judge | BIMA Advance Award for Diversity Jury | BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), July 2018
BIMA 100 “Champion for Good” | BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), 9 May 2018 | BIMA | READ MORE
2017
Top 10 Trailblazers for Change in 2017 (NO. 8) | Campaign, 11 December 2017 | Campaign Magazine | READ MORE
Speaker | eurobest London 2017 (28-30 November 2017) | eurobest Festival of Creativity | READ MORE
2016
Speaker | D&AD Festival 2016 (20-22 April 2016) | D&AD | READ MORE
3rd Place Winner (Joint 3rd Place Winner with my team) that was a project to help prove that diversity works | The Great British Diversity Experiment, 25 February 2016 | READ MORE
2015
Speaker | CANNT Find Them, Cannt Festival 2015, 26 June 2015 | Cannt Festival
2011
National winner for THE SHOUT AWARD for campaigning – vinspired, 17 March 2011
Finalist team for live industry brief – Bloom Consulting (Madrid), 17 January 2011
National Finalist for THE SHOUT AWARD for campaigning – vinspired, 10 January 2011
2010
London Regional Winner for THE SHOUT AWARD for campaigning – vinspired, 1 November 2010
Finalist for the SMK London Social Justice Award – Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK), 21 September 2010
Successful nomination as Rotary Young Citizen 2010 – RIBI, April 2010
Joint runner-up for 2010 Young Citizen Award (received from Redbridge Mayor) – Redbridge Rotary Club, 1 April 2010
2009
Monthly winner of Young Citizen Award – Redbridge Rotary Club, September 2009
Won President’s Award for 2009 Young Person of the Year – Muscular Dystrophy UK, September 2009
2005
Won Marketing Student of The Year – Robinson Secondary School (USA), June 2005
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”