Ayeisha Thomas-Smith

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Ayeisha Thomas-Smith

Presenter, Weekly Economics Podcast


Ayeisha is a social movement strategist, facilitator and broadcaster focused on organising for a new economy. She is executive director of the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), and co-founder and chair of KINfolk Black Activist Network. Ayeisha has previously held governance roles with the Public Interest Research Centre and Common Wealth, and acted as a strategic advisor to a number of leading social justice organisations including IPPR, NESTA, The Philanthropy Workshop and Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Ayeisha presents the New Economics Podcast for the New Economics Foundation and Economics with Subtitles for BBC R4.