James is the London chair of the LGBT+ Friends Network at Vodafone. As the first openly LGBT+ employee to travel to Kenya, he worked with the CEO and HR Director to shape global LGBT+ policies within the organization. His work on LGBT+ visibility included the organization of a series of panel events on the intersection of LGBT+ with faith, gender and race giving a voice to marginalized groups, and the delivery of trainings on LGBT+ topics to provide skills around language and inclusive conversations. James was also an organizer and keynote speaker at Vodafone’s LGBT+ inclusion training and spoke at a Global and UK supplier event to share the LGBT+ youth & BAME perspective with senior leaders. Outside of Vodafone, James is working in partnership with Stonewall to create a mobile application for LGBT+ people worldwide to report hate crimes to a trusted source, receive wellbeing information and get support.
