The Invisible Narrator: Black Girls’ Business Leadership and Social Justice

• In Event: Making Youth Justice Strategies Visible

Abstract

This paper explores the ways in which family characteristics, decisions, and dynamics influences the development of new ideas for female leadership as creatively reinvented. It portrays what we might learn from home-school education for young people, African-Caribbean girls in particular, that empower them to envision leadership skills and pursue social justice. Visual arts images and Black female narratives were undertaken drawing data from discussions with Black girls and parents living in the Urban Midlands UK locality. Contextual factors at the institutional level highlighted girls' vulnerability within mainstream state education, transforming facilities into supportive networks can be considered a complex innovation.

Presenter

• Janet Grey-Elsharif, SPICES Academic Consultancy