code red the empowerment project
London
The founder, Calvin E J Wilson LLM (LSE), is a Barrister who has a longstanding
interest in educating students, young adults, and their parents on the workings
of the criminal justice system. The Empowerment Project Qualifications and
Studies Barrister at Law, Inns of Court, School of Law, United Kingdom Attorney
at Law Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown
Prosecution Service, United Kingdom Banker, Bank of Commerce, Trinidad and
Tobago Master of Laws (Commercial) London School of Economics Bachelor of Laws
University of London The Empowerment Project Experience Post graduate education
and training in the law, with valuable experience on the frontline of the
Criminal Justice System including almost eight years prosecution experience at
the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Courts, and operational
experience with advising Teams at New Scotland Yard. Devised and successfully
delivered this series of workshops and has conducted mentoring, motivational
speaking and awareness raising sessions at Youth Clubs and Community Centres
around London. Direct contacts with officers of the Met Police at ranks of
Constable, Sergeant, and Inspector. Guidance and mentoring experience with black
young adults. The Empowerment Project Skills Strong professional,
administrative, managerial, and creative skills. Resolute adherence to good
governance, accounting and auditing best practices. Devising and implementing
new and improved working arrangements and innovative projects. Unique skill set
that is critical to the effective leadership and delivery of the objectives of
Code Red Empowerment. Established Consulting firm Calvin Wilson and Associates,
which offers strategic and public affairs advice to governments and the private
sector globally, on anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of
terrorism issues, and on preventing trans-national criminal gangs from preying
on young people. Founded The Empowerment Project The Empowerment Project Books
Author of the book “Voices from Violence. A Woman’s Journey to Self-Healing”
which is presented to audiences in the Readers Theatre format by CODE RED
Ensemble, as an advocacy vehicle to empower young girls and women and to
sensitise boys and men in order to reduce or eliminate the level of violence
globally. Desilu Banton desilu banton I was born in Dulwich Hospital, East
Dulwich Grove,SE22 3PT, on 11th December 1961. I began my life in a house at 102
Railton Road, Herne Hill,SE24 OET, on the ‘Front Line’ of ‘Brixton’, London.
What I remember most of my childhood is drawing, drawing all the time, every
opportunity. My father loved music and loved to dance. We would dance together.
My mother designed clothes and was a dressmaker and cake baker. My parents had
arrived in England in 1954 from Jamaica and lived in the Brixton area. They
lived on Concannon Road from around 1955 and moved to Railton Road in 1959 after
they had wed at the church at Santley Street, around the corner of Concannon
Road. Today I live by my painting and continue in my mothers’ and fathers’
legacy as a creator. I am open to producing works of art by commission. painting
Painting is expression, a way of me talking with everybody else about how I
feel, like a bluesman would play his blues. The whole thing is about feeling.
Painting is blues. I paint those feelings that are from inside my head, from
inside my soul. The spiritual part of all this is the heritage, the thing that
comes from my ancestors, the ingredients that everybody talks about when they
talk about the past, where we all come from, which is DNA, the genes. What I am
doing is recording the memory that comes to me from nature, along with the music
that came from West Africa and the Atlantic experience, all of it, and what I do
then is give it form, give it some skin, textures and colours, the whole thing
is like an umbilical cord that has not lost its life force, it is the whole nine
yards. Jackie Burton Jackie Burton Born and raised in West Yorkshire, I took a
trip to London in 1983 and have remained here since then. I am a black woman, a
Christian and a mother. A retired Social Worker, I have a passion for children,
young people and their families. Over the last 40 years I have had roles in
church including youth leader and Pathfinder club leader as well as teaching in
children’s Sabbath school & children’s church. It was my joy, to find the most
creative and interesting ways to engage children and young people with so many
varied learning styles. Over the last 12 years of my career I was a Team Leader
for a local authority Fostering Service; having responsibility for facilitating
training, assessing foster carers and placing children from diverse and
challenging backgrounds with those carers. Life-long learning is part of who I
am and I started becoming more interested in paper crafts when my now, 25 year
old son was around 3 years old. We started to make cards for every occasion and
stopped buying them from the shops. Paper crafts opened the door to so many
other crafting pursuits and my love for crafting has only grown since then, from
wedding decoration, decoupage & canvas art to knitting & simple sewing, I have
done many and various and still do. Nothing pleases me more than sharing my love
for something with others, and creative crafts is certainly one of those very
many things. I have done this via children’s craft workshops; transforming
spaces for Vacation Bible School (VBS); school holiday clubs; card making
workshops for children and adults. If it includes crafting, I will consider it.
Currently I am involved in a weekly Craft Café project where we are using hobby
crafts to support people in our community who may be lonely, socially isolated
or feeling low. Sr Josephine Udie MP, MSc, GC HDip, NP Reverend Sister, Steer
Right Project Coordinator, Power Coach Expert, Health Care Professional Reverend
Sister, Steer Right Project Coordinator, Power Coach Expert, Health Care
Professional Sister Josephine is passionate about the dignity of the human
person. As a trained Power Coach and Health Care professional, Sister enjoys
using her skills to coach, support and empower children and families to become
who they are meant to be. Steer Right is a charity for which Sister Josephine is
Project Coordinator, uses the strap line Little help Big Difference to highlight
the effectiveness of what a small amount of intervention can do. Amari
Smith-Foster Amari Smith-Foster I am a mental health advocate and a student
counsellor. I am extremely passionate about mental health and well-being. After
battling with my own mental health, being sectioned at just 13 and becoming part
of the system, I am using those same life experiences to help others overcome.
My story, my pain and this rollercoaster of a journey has given me great insight
to help others and make a change. Me speaking up and using my voice, allows so
many others, old, young, male, and female to feel heard, to feel seen. Now I am
in a position, I have promised myself , it is pivotal that I make a change for
the mental health system. My social profiles: Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/onetap/?next=%2F LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amari-smith-foster-26a68417b/ Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPMHXb5U40E0Zw1B3h4vcJg Please feel free to
contact me should there be any issues. Norman Mine Norman Mine Norman Mine is an
Italian-born London based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses
visual art, acting and social work. Using autobiographical scenarios as a
starting point, Mine's practice expands into fantasy and delusion and in his
alter-ego, Dino Desica, an aspiring Italian actor who exists only through a
video format, as "performance to camera", becoming an ephemeral simulation of
the self. Mine's practice explores the infinite possibilities of the self, the
authenticity and the structures of inclusion and exclusion in which it is
constructed. For the past three years Mine has run creative workshops co-working
with people of different generations, backgrounds, and abilities; developing a
specific approach that unsettles the scenario in which participants perform to
stimulate creativity and imagination as an opportunity to navigate within. Mine
has obtained a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Goldsmith College in 2018. His work
has been shown at Performance Istanbul (2021), disORDER Live Collective (2020),
Deptford X (2019), The Koppel Project (2019), Platform1 Gallery (2018), Art
Night London (2017). He was a recipient of the DYCP grant, Art Council England
(2021). In 2022 Mine has founded Norwood JunkAction, an eco-community art
project based in Croydon, London. Diana Wilson Diana Wilson Diana Wilson is an
Executive and Life Coach professional as well as a Psychodynamic Counsellor, who
in parallel, has enjoyed a substantial career in Education and Training and
Development across Schools and local Government. Diana is fluidly proficient in
a myriad of modalities with a keen focus on Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. She
offers leading-edge, inspirational coaching that stimulates thinking,
accelerates transformation, and empowers clients to accomplish their
aspirational goals. My social handles: Website: www.dwcoach.co.uk LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/diana-wilson-564a6941 Richmond Trew Richmond Trew A Professional
Trainer/Workshop Facilitator with 25 years’ experience of working in communities
and custodial settings nationally and internationally. He is also a recording &
performing artist fronting the collective Abstract Word and currently has
Publishing & Production contracts with (Peer Music LTD-MAP Music). Richmond also
leads a group of free-lance Arts Practioners under the name of Journeyman Arts
(Using the Arts to share & pass on Knowledge). He also Runs 492 Korna Klub next
generation Ltd that runs live improvised drama weekly on Galaxy Radio.
