Karen Chouhan: economic equality for black communities in Britain

Rosemary Hartill continues her series of profiles of the ‘Rowntree Visionaries’. She talks to Karen Chouhan, who has developed new approaches to race equality in Britain

Karen | Photo: Photo courtesy Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

It was a visionary vision. ‘And I really believed it was achievable,’ says Karen Chouhan. ‘I’d been working in race equality for twenty-five or more years, there was still a pretty good swing going on race equality, and I had a whole range of contacts over the UK. So I knew the atmosphere was right, that people would come behind a new approach to race equality that was based on tackling some of the stark facts of economic disadvantage.’

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