About Zeinab

Zeinab Ali has nine years of experience supporting practitioners in the Equality, Inclusion and Diversity (EDI) sector and six years of marketing experience specialising in social media marketing, SEO optimisation, email marketing, website management, etc. While working at an assistive technology company, she ran a successful interview blog series where she interviewed design, tech, and accessibility professionals and asked questions about how they achieved success.

Experience

Zeinab has supported a variety of completed and ongoing inclusion and diversity campaigns, including:

• Learning Disability Work Experience Week
• The Speaker of the House of Common’s BAME Challenge
• Global Inclusion Week
• National Inclusion Week

Skills

• Bachelors Degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Westminster
• Masters Degree in English Literature from Queen Mary University
• HubSpot certification in Social Media Marketing
• HubSpot certification in SEO Marketing
• Shadowed inclusion and diversity consultants to understand their role

Achievements

Zeinab has:

• Represented Inclusive Employers in a Sky News interview explaining the benefits of taking part in National Inclusion Week.   
• Made a guest appearance on the Talking Inclusion With… podcast to discuss her personal experience of looking for employment and thriving in the workplace as an autistic person.
• Manages the Inclusive Employers’ Awareness Days Calendar. She copywrites for and updates this resource, which helps clients stay informed of upcoming religious holidays and awareness events. This resource is very popular with our members.
• Manages and sources interviews for our blog series ‘Five minutes with…’. This series spotlights inclusion practitioners and professionals who make inclusion an everyday reality.
• Published thought leadership advising employers on how to close the autism employment gap. Read her blogs How to help disabled employees apply for Access to Work and Why I’m becoming an Autistic role model to learn more.

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