Come join Kurt Satney your Student President for a candid conversation with BPP students Keira Koroma and Philip Nyeko and BPP Alumnus and Entrepreneur James Adeleke on what it means to be Proud to be Black. They will discuss the challenges they faced on each of their unique journeys and how they overcame them. They will give helpful tips on navigating university life as Black students and social mobility in various sectors such as law, business, and banking as Black professionals.
Join us on Thursday 28th October 2021 from 6-7pm virtually on Microsoft Teams.
Access the Proud To Be Panel at 6pm here!
Meet our panelists
James Adeleke
Nigerian Born, Dyslexic Social entrepreneur James Adeleke is on a mission to change the world (at least to make it fairer). He is a BPP Alumnus where he studied his LLB. He is CEO and Founder of Generation Success, an award-winning social enterprise that works with 70 employers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to tackle the social inequalities in society and connect diverse talent to careers. This is delivered through their diversity and inclusion consultancy, training and early talent recruitment services. James started Generation Success after the London riots. Rising from the riots came a desire to be part of the change. Driving by the fundamental belief, your career should not be defined by your birth and witnessing the struggle that many of his contemporaries in law school faced in their careers, due to social or economic background James set about taking action. He has been involved in a number of projects, reports and commissions centred around enterprise and employability. He has also spoken in parliament and city hall on social mobility, diversity and employability.
Keira Koroma
Keira Koroma is a BPP student studying on the GDL (Distance Learning) course. From a young age Keira has been an active campaigner on disability rights and wider social justice, this led her to complete a Double Masters in Global Governance, specialising in Human Rights and Social Justice at Warwick University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). While at BSIA Keira was granted a Graduate Fellowship, which involved completing research and presenting findings to Global Affairs Canada. Keira is the founder and President of the BPP London, Women and Non-Binary People in Law Society. The Society aims to raise awareness of the issues faced by women and non-binary people and celebrate their accomplishments in the legal profession.
Philip Nyeko
Philip completed his LLB with a 2:1 and is currently pursuing the MSc Management with Project Management at BPP. Philip can also code, so he does some part-time product management, leading a team of software developers remotely. He spends any free time doing a range of interests, including cooking, cycling as part of the Black Cyclists Network (BCN), kayaking, table tennis, wine tasting, food critiquing, personal training, and pro bono paralegal work in employment law for ET Hub, a company he helped cofound. His Black hero is Julius Nyerere (Mwalimu), Founder of the African Union, and former President of Tanzania. A main promoter of Pan-Africanism who believed Africa would benefit from having egalitarian socialist societies, to achieve economic independence from foreign aid and foreign investment. It is in this same spirit that Philip has strived to bring and promote Black success into his profession.