I grew up in Hertfordshire and studied for my degree in Nottingham with a year abroad in the USA.
I’ve had a varied career through which I have had opportunity to live and work in many different parts of the country.
My career began with a traineeship in a local Arts Centre and I continued to work in Arts marketing for a theatre and then a music festival. I then moved to London to re-launch a restaurant in the heart of the City – in the crypt of St Mary le Bow church. I managed Front of House and within our first month of opening, we received a brilliant review from Jay Rayner in The Guardian. In 2011, I moved into Higher Education – working for an International Education Provider – leading a successful Internship Placement programme for 800+ American undergraduate students per year studying abroad in London. In 2017, I moved to Devon and began work at the University of Exeter, starting with 9 month maternity cover position as Global Employability Consultant. Subsequently, I secured a permanent post as Student Startup Manager. I have since been promoted to Head of Student Entrepreneurship where I deliver impactful entrepreneurship & venture creation programmes and am supporting delivery of an ambitious strategy to embed entrepreneurship throughout the institution. The threads throughout my professional career are the desire to take on new challenges, to make a positive difference, to unlock the potential of others and to create and nurture connections between people.