Co-Founder and Director, One Million Mentors
Alveena has twenty years’ experience of working on social justice issues, including leading policy work on equalities and community cohesion, and delivering social innovation projects.
Alveena is co-founder and director of One Million Mentors, which is a pioneering approach using the advantages of technology in order to transform the process of mentoring for all. One Million Mentors purpose is to train, recruit and connect a million mentors to a million young people in the UK to help them maximise their talents and get into the world of work.
Formerly, Alveena was CEO of UpRising, which is Britain’s premier leadership programme looking to support diverse young people aged 19 to 25 access power and become leaders while remaining connected to their communities.
Contributions
The Best of New Britain: An UpRising survey on leadership in the UK
Publication Posted on: 1 March 2012