Rochelle has been working behind the scenes with BelEve since 2013, supporting the development of all the key programmes.

Rochelle first started her career as a youth worker within the local community, and serving young people has always been her passion.

Rochelle’s main focus for BelEve has been building relationships with our key partners and young people

Erica recently graduated from Birmingham city university with a bachelor of the arts honours degree in Graphic Communication.

Erica is responsible for Marketing, Communications and Graphic design for BelEve. Her main focus is to make BelEve known nationwide through strategic marketing and also empowering females to chase their dreams, speak up and gain support through sisterhood.

An empathetic problem solver leading Strategy and Operations at Facebook.

Partner at Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co, a chartered accountancy practice in central London.

6 years experience supporting children, adults and family’s, delivering evidence based programmes that explore some of the historical factors impacting on their behaviours.

Founder of The People’s Partner Ltd, HR Specialist, Career Mentor and International Mentor.

Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Women’s Leadership Coach and Business Consultant designing and delivering leadership development programmes.

As a young female who is trying to become a computer scientist, a heavily male dominated industry, I understand the importance to have the drive to break gender boundaries. Therefore, I am passionate about female empowerment because I believe it is important that all females know that their potential should never be restricted by society or stereotypes.

I would like to serve on the BelEve Young Leadership Board because I feel that it would give me a platform to inspire others and educate girls about issues such as the BAME attainment gap and inequality, that I am passionate about and I believe that others should be as well. It would also give me the opportunity to meet other girls who are passionate, which would be inspiring and allow me to relate to other like-minded young ladies, but also make friends and connections for life!

I’m excited to support other young women, and being a part of change.  Women are still being treated unfairly around the world and its not right. Sometimes young women don’t have any help and it is important to empower them.

I believe every girl needs a support network to help her grown and develop into an independent women. Being apart of the Young Leadership Board gives us the platform to be heard, reach, support and positively influence as many girls lives as possible. I enjoy having countless incredible opportunities to meet so many amazing women and girls. I believe the chance to network and support one another is an incomparable experience.

Having the opportunity to be part of the leadership team allows me to help young girls have a voice. I am extremely passionate about self-love and confidence; I want to girls to feel confident to the point where no one’s opinion can taint how they feel about themselves. I believe women can achieve anything that they want and break the stereotypes that have been enforced on us by society. We can be leaders.

Female empowerment has always been a key part of my life growing up and especially now that I have matured. I believe that there is still a lack of strong female representation in the labour market and in other areas as well. I want to be the change I want to see and therefore, I want to contribute to greater female social representation in the media and the workplace.

I want to be on the BelEve young leadership board to be a figure that people can talk to about anything whether that be socially dismissed topics such as sexual harassment or trivial things like how to keep fit. I want to be on the board to have a wider outreach to challenge people’s thoughts on topics, to start conversations, to take action and to educate people. In order for me to do this I believe that joining a board such as the Young Leadership Board where similar ideas run is the best way.

Being apart of the Young Women’s Board Leadership which helps other females is a great honour. The impact that opportunities create can be huge and to be apart of that is amazing. In this day and age, it is hard to be a female and I think that having fellow females to look up to is crucial for young girls.

I am extremely passionate about female empowerment because in society there are many norms/gender norms against women which shouldn’t be there, for example, men are the breadwinners and women should depend on them instead of being able and capable to work for themselves and be stable by themselves. Not only that but as generations develop we want these norms and the views on women to be able to be as equal to as men in order for everyone to feel equal. Being able to do the same job as a man shouldn’t be viewed as bad, it should be allowed because nothing is impossible. It is important to help other females out and work together.

I want to see us females taking over and helping each other grow because alot of young girl have amazing talents and dream but don’t know how to showcase it or just doesn’t have anyone to show them the way.

I am passionate about female empowerment because we live in a society where social media sets the standard of what females are suppose to look and act like. This unrealistic expectation often makes females feel inferior and their opinions often undermined. The strong female influences in my life has made me eager to break this stereotype and instead let girls know they are more than capable of achieving their dreams and that their voices are worthy to be heard despite what the world may say.