Local Governance

Date of Appointments

All appointed November 2022 unless otherwise stated.

Rachel Goode

Rachel has spent the last 23 years working in the education/research publishing sector, mainly at Oxford University Press. She's currently responsible for a global marketing team supporting the work of the Academic Division, and also the classical music publishing business at OUP. Prior to that she trained as a secondary school teacher, specializing in the performing arts, and worked in state schools in South East England and also in Hong Kong. Rachel's main passion has always been music, having graduated from Oxford University with a Music degree. Outside of work, Rachel plays flute in a few ensembles, sings in a choir, runs with her dog, and loves being a mum to an energetic son with ADHD and Dyslexia. Having recently joined the Evolve Academy as it's Chair of Governors, Rachel is really looking forward to supporting the school in its ambitions to provide students with the opportunity to progress academically, as well as meeting their vitally important social and emotional needs. 

Melissa Elvé-Williams

Melissa Elvé-Williams has worked for PLT since April 2015, and has been Head at Evolve Academy since it opened in November 2022. She ran her own vocational school for the Trust, was Headteacher at the two previous SEMH and AP provisions in Lambeth for PLT, and has also been on the Leadership team of a mainstream Lambeth school. Her area of expertise is vocational education, and prior to becoming Headteacher at the Trust's AP setting in Lambeth, Melissa worked as the Vocational Lead across Parallel Learning Trust. Despite living in North London, she has worked in Lambeth for more than twenty years.

Alice Dias

Alice Dias has a Master’s degree in social work and over 15 years of experience working with children and young people in education and voluntary settings, including 6 years working and volunteering for the NSPCC. Before moving to London in 2013, Alice coordinated several youth mobility projects across Europe. Alice is an experienced leader with expertise in safeguarding and frontline work. As a former Lambeth resident, Alice has excellent knowledge of the local community and resources available and works for a local charity supporting unpaid carers from the age of 5.

Amanda Kamin

A senior corporate reputation specialist with 20 years’ marketing and communications experience, Amanda Kamin is Chief Marketing Communications Officer for Digital Catapult. Having worked in international organisations (Motorola, Visa Europe and VisionFund) and within the UK public sector (Food From Britain) both in agency and in-house roles, she has broad experience across a range of markets and audiences. Amanda is skilled in multichannel oversight, leadership communications and quality content generation.

Hilary Ndukuba

Hilary is a Therapeutic Counsellor for counselling agency, One-In-Four UK, and Learning Support Staff for Evolve Academy with vast experience in working with children and young people with challenging behaviour, low self-esteem, and troubled family backgrounds, within the alternative provision.  He is the Learning Support representative within the council.

Emily Newitt

Emily is the Programme Manager for the Teaching School Hubs Council, where she is responsible for project management, event management and communications. She has always been deeply interested in education, and keen to contribute to improving experiences for teachers and pupils. Emily has worked in many different areas in her career, most recently in the museum sector. She also volunteers in a suicide prevention charity and is passionate particularly about young people’s mental health services.

Octavia Cogher

Octavia has a background as a secondary school maths teacher, working in schools with high proportions of disadvantaged students for over 5 years. She has experience working in school leadership roles, as both Head of Careers and Head of House. Both roles gave Octavia valuable insights into school management, and raising students' aspirations to pursue their future career path of choice. Currently, Octavia works for an adult apprenticeship provider which specialises in coding and AI, where she leads on improving the quality of programme delivery and overall education standards. In addition to her professional commitments, Octavia tutors for SEMH students, who cannot attend mainstream school. In her spare time, Octavia leads an active lifestyle, including running, swimming, cycling, yoga, and mosaic art.

Landi Muca

Academy Councillor

 

 

 

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