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Yvonne Field delivers the second of two provocations, exploring the particular complexities we're dealing with right now. This provocation is about context, and how civic infrastructure can help us to manage the demands of a turbulent world experiencing erosion and breakage within many of its systems. Is our work and / or the services we have access to fit for purpose?
Yvonne Field has spent more than four decades working with individuals, groups and organisations across the UK, the English-speaking Caribbean, Asia, South Africa and mainland Europe. Her work with women, young people and Black and marginalised communities has created a lifelong commitment to the promotion of social justice, equalities and anti-discriminatory practice.
Yvonne is the Founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative, an African Diaspora led social enterprise helping to build more sustainable communities across the UK. Ubele supports Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity community wealth building through sustainable community spaces, intergenerational leadership, community enterprise and social action.
It is also the BAME infrastructure organisation for Greater London and has been at the forefront of the BAME community response to Covid-19.
Between 2014-2020 Yvonne was employed as an academic at Goldsmiths, University of London teaching applied social research, leadership and management, experiential group work and global youth work. She has recently had chapters published in Community Development for Social Change, 2020 (Routledge) and Right to the City, 2020, (UCL Press).
Yvonne has advised the UK and regional governments on Black and minority ethnic and women’s enterprise and was included in the Nat West Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise (WISE) group in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a Churchill Fellow (CF).