#78 Leyya & Roshni
Leyya and Roshni co-founded The Other Box - an award-winning platform to increase diversity in the creative industries celebrating people of colour and other minorities.
Both Leyya and Roshni – two brown, female, state-school educated second/third generation immigrants from working class backgrounds, who happen to be creatives in design and advertising combined their lived experience of everyday exclusion and tokenism with academic knowledge of race, racism and radical histories of colonialism to challenge the lack of diversity within the creative industries.
As well as running workshops within agencies, they’re regularly invited to sit on panels, radio and TV shows for the likes of BBC, Huffington Post and WGSN and also tailor events to discuss issues around diversity, identity, racism and more.
Website: www.theotherbox.org
Twitter: twitter.com/_TheOtherBox