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With over 15 years of experience in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), Vee is a passionate advocate for social justice, with a professional background spanning microfinance, law, and policy.

Her career has taken her across public institutions and sectors, including housing, education, employment law, and more recently, environmental justice. Vee has worked tirelessly to embed anti-racist and inclusive practices into policies and programmes that impact marginalised communities.
In addition to her professional role, Vee is an active member of her community. She sits on the Board of Carers of West Lothian, contributing her expertise to support unpaid carers and disabled people. She is also deeply involved in community engagement, particularly in supporting women’s networks and advocating for the voices of women of African heritage.

Known for her strategic insight and grounded community connections, Vee brings a race-conscious lens to environmental and social equity work, championing transformative change across all sectors she engages with.”

Her experience in voluntary work ranges from education to community activism. With an academic background at the University of Edinburgh in Critical Race Theory, she specialises in anti-racism training/workshops and delivers consultancy support. Her role also involves influencing policy and change, sitting on groups including the Scottish Government’s Anti Racism in Education Programme (AREP) and the Racism and Racist Incidents (RRI) subgroup.

When she’s not at CEMVO, Pui-Kei loves spending time in nature so you’ll find her on walking trails or jogging.

Working across Scotland, Padam oversees both the capacity building and the funding application process, from providing guidance around completing a successful application, support around articulating project ideas and setting a realistic budget. He chairs the national Knowledge and Learning Network—with over 230 member championing sector knowledge building and providing a platform for EM organisations to share their unique insights and lived experiences within the funding arena.

With 35 years’ experience in public and voluntary service, Padam’s background spans employability, equality, mental health, and fund management. His core strengths include relationship development, training, and multimedia communication. Beyond work, he’s a dedicated mentor and a published cartoonist, recognised by the Scottish Cartoonist and Comic Artists Circle.

Her expertise lies in providing tailored support to social enterprise start-ups, specifically focusing on individuals from ethnic minority communities who face additional challenges. She has a deep understanding of cultural differences and the unique barriers these communities encounter, recognising that those from ethnic minority backgrounds often face additional barriers in the SE sector. Her role involves offering comprehensive social enterprise start-up support, guiding clients through the complexities of launching and sustaining their social enterprise, providing operational guidance, legal structural advice and registration to help them succeed in their entrepreneurial ventures. Whether it’s through strategic planning, market research, financial management, or operational guidance, Yasmin can provide support to entrepreneurs with the tools and confidence required to succeed.

Yasmin has built a versatile 24-year career in enterprise, with roles spanning corporate banking, regeneration, and creative industries. She began her journey at a regeneration agency in 2006 after transitioning from a managerial role in corporate banking, a shift from the design career she initially pursued after earning her degree in Business and Textile Design. Yasmin’s expertise lies in supporting creative industries, where her entrepreneurial instincts thrive. As a creative professional herself, with multiple start-up ventures to her name, she enjoys leveraging her experience to assist individuals and groups aiming to launch social enterprises.

Zora is passionate about climate justice and in previous roles has helped communities and young people to learn about the environment, get involved in gardening understand the importance of protecting and improving green spaces for people and wildlife. And helping young people and children to be more. Zora studied Zoology in England and Behavioural Ecology in the Netherlands, where she focused on bats in urban areas and developed an educational tool in a botanic garden to address visitors’ plant blindness.

Zora is a board member of Plastic-free Dunfermline, supporting individuals, communities and businesses in and around Dunfermline and Fife, to eliminate single-use plastics.

Alvaro is also involved in digital marketing for our CEMVO Enterprises CIC and CEMVO Scotland’s Equal Jobs portal.

Alvaro Holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow and has experience working in migrant solidarity projects, worker co-operatives and community enterprises.

His most recent achievement was organising and marketing CEMVO Scotland’s recent Equal Jobs Fair at Glasgow City Chambers, which was attended by over 250 job seekers with over 30 organisations looking to recruit in attendance.

Wayne holds a BA (Hons) degree in Animation and prior to joining CEMVO, Wayne worked at Impact Arts as a Creative Assistant on the Creative Pathways programme. He worked with young people on commissioned art projects for the Glasgow Science Centre and ScottishPower Renewables to create a mural and a cloth packaging that was sold online and in stores. He has also worked on TV productions such as The Rig Season 2 for Amazon Prime Video in the TV industry.