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Our Team |
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Dr Kamal Rasul (Director) |
Kamal is the founder and director of MODA since 1998. He worked as co-ordinator, chair and board member of several BME and mainstream voluntary and community organisations and networks, supporting the establishment of more than 22 new refugee and BME community groups in London in the last five years.
He provided specialist and general training to over 250 BME, refugee and migrant community organisations in London and regions. He has designed a comprehensive integrated training programme for capacity building of community organisations. He has given advice and consultancy to public sector bodies regarding BME issues.
From 2001 to 2003 he was Chair of Voluntary Sector Forum in London, advocating the cause and interests of London voluntary sector. He also represented BME sector in ALG consultation process re new funding arrangements for BME voluntary sector in London (2000-2001).
From 2002 he is member of CEMVO’s advisory board.
From 2004 he is member of LVSC board of directors and from 2005 is elected chair of London BME network PILLAR, member of Praxis board of directors and member of ChangeUp consortium.
His academic background incudes English studies (BA, University of Baghdad), Cross-cultural studies (MA University of Essex), literature-Orientalism (PhD, University of Essex) and Voluntary Sector Organisation (MSc, London School of Economics).
Among his latest publications, "Relationship between the State and the Voluntary Sector" (Plaza, 2002) and several booklets and guides for BME community sector.
He is also a writer and a translator of poetry.
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Alessio D'Angelo (Information Services & Research Officer )
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Alessio has a background as journalist, editorial consultant and web editor. From 2001-2003 he worked as a press officer for Caritas and in 2002 entered the research team of Dossier Statistico Immigrazione, where he worked in the field of migration, multiculturalism and recently carried out research for the Italian Institute for Welfare and Pensions on welfare provisions for migrants.
He is in the board of RelazionInternazionali - association involved with international politics, human rights and social issues – and directs its magazine Medeura. After a degre in
International Social Science, in 2004 he moved to London and started working with migrant and ethnic minority organisations, particularly within MODA where he developed MODA’s Directory of Ethnic Community Organisations and other editorial projects.
He is a free-lance researcher particularly interested in migration and refugee issues, cultural diversities and integration, human rights and civil liberties, currently working with Middlesex University, where he undertook mapping and interviews for the project on Mapping Refugees in Islington. He recently completed an MSc Social Science Research Methods for which he received a distinction and a prize for the best dissertation which focused on Kurdish Associations and their networks
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| Alex Yang
(Organisational
Development Officer) |
Alex has been working as Outreach Development Worker at Moda for more than two years. She deals with small ethnic and minority community organisations, supporting them in the areas of organisational development: this includes helping a new organisation to start up and become registered, assisting an existing organisation to look for suitable funding, supporting an established organisation in developing a quality system, or any other area of organisational development.
In 2005/06 she provided support to 20 BME community organisations in the areas of Project Development, Strategic Planning, Quality Systems and Standards, Fundraising and Effective Management.
She has a background as business researcher, a bookkeeper for private firms as well as development worker for a voluntary organisation, which has franchise from Legal Service Commission and specialised in providing legal advice.
Her educational background also involves business, public and voluntary sectors.
She
obtained an Msc in International Business and a Postgraduate Certificate in Management for public and voluntary sectors, from Goldsmiths University of London.
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| Emily Di Florido (ICT Officer) |
Emily
has a background as webmaster, software developer and ICT
officer. From 2001 she worked as webmaster and web content
editor for different Italian companies, developing and managing
their websites and related comunication services. After a
degree in Computer Science, in 2004 she moved to London and
started working with MODA where she developed MODA’s
E-bulletin. She has been involved in designing and managing
several MODA projects related to web technologies and ICT
services (e.g., Pillar Consortium website, Bangladeshi Women
Society website and MODA database).
For nearly a year she also worked as Analyst for Transport for London, where she carried on a International Benchmarking Project involving seven European cities and related to best practices in bus management policies.
Her broad research interests lay in the areas of model driven information systems development and the use of open source software. Her current research focuses on the development and actuability of open source software and free operating systems within the third sector, via the organisation of introductive trainings.
In 2006 she completed an MSc in Information System Development for which she received a distinction at the London Metropolitan University
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