2022-23 Associates Cohort

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The AHI Associate Leadership Programme is an international, year-long, leadership and professional development programme for a group of 8 individuals, all of whom are or have been homeless. The first year runs April 2022 – April 2023.

The cohort will have 5 set meetings per year and continuous follow up with a trained coach and relevant staff members. They will be allocated a small personal budget to use for an individual project, take part in placements, shadow AHI’s programmes and deliver freelance projects. 

We celebrate the generosity of the following supporters who have made this programme happen – Linbury Trust, Crowdfunding donors, Michael Sheen, National Justice Museum, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Museum of Home. 

 

Meet the 2022-23 cohort:

  • Bengy Speer (Coventry) – producer and DJ who was part of the Coventry City of Culture’s leadership programme. They are also a Trustee of Pride Coventry and part of AHI’s Cultural Spaces Responses to Homelessness programme, a Co-creating Change-funded project to help cultural spaces deepen their work with homeless people 

  • Denise Harrison (Cornwall) – is a multi award-winning freelance writer and film-maker, best known for her hard-hitting content on topics such as poor mental health, homelessness and addiction. ( Words in Metro / The Big Issue / Film Stories Magazine) 

  • Lisa Ogun‘ (London) – writer and facilitator who has been a member of Cardboard Citizens and was part of AHI’s Cultural Spaces Responses to Homelessness programme. She has expertise in verbatim theatre. 

  • Mitchel Ceney (London) – is an artist and workshop leader who specialises in Illustration, painting, urban and social photography. With a background in Hip hop, rap, graffiti writing, Drum and bass/jungle mcing. He was part of AHI’s Cultural Spaces Responses to Homelessness programme 

  • Amanda Sinclair (Nottingham) – Creative Practitioner / Photographer/ Painter/ Writer practice is inspired by surrealism, and the intense colours and dramatic subject matter of neo-expressionism. 

  • Surfing Sofas is a writer from London, who uses his work to break the stigmas based around homelessness and raise awareness of the homeless crisis in the UK. He has facilitated poetry and songwriting workshops at one of the UK’s leading homeless charities. He has also performed his homeless related material at The Tate Modern, NHS Conferences and more. 

  • Asli Jarr Kashaf – Anonymous (pronouns it/she/they) Multi-disciplinary Maker/Baker/Cake-Eater. Currently exploring concepts of re-rooting, space and inter-generational healing through play, plants, and adventure. Passionate about unfurling, un-specialising and un-professionalising therapeutic relationships and care. 

  • Shalea is a Singer, Songwriter, Music Producer from London. Using her voice for social change & to raise money & awareness for national and worldwide charities