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Guest Speaker Bio

Mrs Rachael Twumasi-Corson

Medical Anthropology, MSc 2015

At 19 Rachael co-founded Afrocenchix, an award-winning ethical startup that creates safe, effective, vegan certified products for Afro & curly hair.

After graduating with a Law degree from the University of Birmingham, Rachael studied at the Institute of Trichologists, then graduated from UCL with an MSc in Medical Anthropology (with a dissertation completed at the University of Cambridge Medical School.)

She’s spoken at hundreds of community organisations, schools and universities, as well as global organisations including: Google; Facebook; UCL; Brunel; the University of Birmingham; and Jamelia’s Table; and appeared on London Live & the BBC.

As a public speaker, Rachael is best known for her winning pitch to celebrity judges including P.Diddy, Gary Vee, Vanessa Kingori (publishing director at British Vogue) and Ashton Kutcher at the WeWork Creator awards, two days before giving birth. When she’s not working on Afrocenchix, Rachael also writes for Mensa magazine and is on the board of BWG C.I.C.