Meet Our Speakers & Workshop Facilitators
Rt Revd Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin
the Bishop of Dover
Rose was born and raised in Jamaica. She was educated at Montego Bay High School for Girls and later completed a BPhil Ed at Birmingham University. She trained with the Church Army and was commissioned in 1982 as an Evangelist; she later trained for Ordination at Queens Theological College on their part-time course, ordained deacon in 1991, priested in 1994 and served in the Diocese of Lichfield. For sixteen and a half years she served as a priest in Hackney (Holy Trinity with St Philip, Dalston and All Saints, Haggerston). In 2007 she was appointed as a Chaplain to Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
In 2010, she became the first female appointed to the position of the 79th Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In November 2014, she took on the additional responsibility as Priest in Charge of city Church, St Mary-at-Hill near Monument.
She is a member of the General Synod of the Church of England and is one of the Panel of Chairs of the Synod. She has twice represented the Church of England at the World Council of Churches (in Zimbabwe & Brazil); she served as the priest representative on the Anglican Consultative Council for 9 years. She also served as a Selection Secretary for the Church of England, helping to select men and women seeking to test their vocation to the ministry. She does numerous preaching and speaking engagements nationally (and occasionally overseas). She was a member of the Broadcasting Standards Commission and has wide experience of media engagement including some religious broadcasting.
Rose is married to Kenneth, a retired prison Chaplain, and they have 3 adult children.
Rt Revd Mark Tanner,
the Bishop of Chester
Mark is married to Lindsay and they have two children, both of whom are studying at university. They live in Chester, where Mark has served as Bishop since 2020.
Prior to coming to Chester, Mark was Bishop of Berwick in the Diocese of Newcastle, following a number of years as Warden of Cranmer Hall training church leaders and others. He has served in local churches in Ripon, Doncaster, Coventry, and on the Wirral, and done various forms of chaplaincy including school and Army.
Mark has authored a number of works including The Introvert Charismatic and The PCC Member’s Essential Guide.
In his spare time he will be found tinkering with a Land Rover, riding a motorbike, or out on the hills.
Elizabeth Olulari
National Lead for Racial Justice
at the Church of England Education Office
Elizabeth is the National Education Lead for Racial Justice at the Church of England Education Office. She has over a decade’s experience working in education leadership as an Education Consultant, Head of Science, EDI Director (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion), SENCO and Safeguarding Lead.
Elizabeth is skilled in contextual safeguarding, coaching, strategic planning, education technology, curriculum development, and change management. She has special interests in mapping school visions, changing school cultures and sustaining change. She champions research and training in intersectionality and how it relates to all the protected characteristics.
She is also on the Board of Directors of a leading publishing company and an author and editor of science textbooks.
Liz Agbettoh
School Effectiveness Officer, Diocese of Blackburn
Liz has been a senior leader in London secondary schools, a School Improvement Officer with the remit for Black Achievement at Brent Local Authority, and a senior leader in the Department for Education at Westminster, working to develop national policy and programmes to raise standards for underachieving groups of pupils. She worked in partnership with the then National College for School Leadership, facilitating training for headteachers and local authority managers. She was also a Regional Adviser for the National Strategies and was the Strategies’ northwest lead for children in receipt of Pupil Premium.
A lifelong commitment to Equality, Diversity and Justice, Liz currently leads the Board of Education’s’ Disadvantage and Poverty Action Research Programme in partnership with Manchester University which supports schools to develop local strategies to support children living in poverty. She coordinates a team of diocesan advisers and provides training and support to school leaders and teachers to ensure that all members of Blackburn’s diocesan family of schools flourish in order to be the best that they can be.
Liz worships at St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square in Manchester.
Aleisha Lewis
Racial Justice Consultant
for Church of England’s Foundation for Educational Leadership
Aleishia is a Headteacher in Southend, Essex. She is a member of the Diocese Board of Education for Chelmsford and is a member of the College of Canons at Chelmsford Cathedral.
Aleishia is a Racial Justice Consultant for the Church of England's Foundation for Educational Leadership (CEFEL) and is one of the leaders of BAMEed East. She has worked with schools and school leaders on a national scale to develop their understanding of identity and belonging. Aleishia has been a co-facilitator for CEFEL's UK/US Inclusion and Diversity Network and is part of the Leaders Like Us team. She believes that every child should see themselves represented in the curriculum and this also drives her work with school leadership which also needs to see greater representation.
From June 2021 to July 2022, Aleishia was seconded to CEFEL as an NPQ Programme Lead, being responsible for the design, development and delivery of the NPQ Senior Leadership and NPQ Leading Teaching . Aleishia has a passion for developing leaders at all levels and has enjoyed meeting and working with the facilitators and participants from across the country. Her school currently delivers the NPQLT to local schools, building communities of practice, sharing expertise and growing great leaders collaboratively.
As a serving headteacher, Aleishia brings authenticity, honesty and experience to her training. She also holds a strong belief in the power of excellent teaching and leadership culture to improve the outcomes of all pupils at the same time as enabling staff to thrive.
Aleishia enjoys reading, cooking, eating and dancing. She is always up for a spontaneous adventure and loves musicals and all things Disney!
Freya Riley & Kayleigh
Grappenhall, St Wilfrid’s CE Primary School
Freya and Kayleigh are both teachers at Grappenhall St Wilfrid’s Primary School in Warrington and are leads for racial justice, serving predominantly White British community.