Shabira is an award-winning social entrepreneur, keynote speaker and founder of People Street. With a background in digital health and health inequalities, her career expands across several sectors including healthcare, tech and not-for-profit. Shabira was headhunted by NHSX to bring inequalities thinking into the covid-app team at the height of the pandemic.
Shabira has held several senior roles including CEO of Democracy Club, an infrastructure tech start-up building platforms for The Electoral Commission and COO of the Baby Buddy app tackling maternal health inequalities.
People Street combines community development, inclusive research, and agile working to achieve design justice. We tackle inequalities by centring the voices of underrepresented communities in the research and design process; we strive for inclusive public services.
Our team is representative of the communities we serve. We speak a range of community languages including Somali, Sylheti, Bengali, Romanian, Urdu, Hindi, Lithuanian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili.
Our community researchers are experienced facilitators; trained in codesign and bring living experience into the design process. Working in this way enables us to embed inclusive design into your business-as-usual rather than an add-on.
Professional Experience, Highlights and Distinctions:
- Shabira has an extensive training background spanning over 20 years. She has trained hundreds of local people in self-management, health literacy and community facilitation.
- Shabira has delivered training and workshops to a range of professionals and organisations including St Joseph’s Hospice, UCL, Coventry University, LEAP Lambeth, DWP, Home Office and Government Digital Services.
- Speciality: Bringing pragmatism to embedding equity and inclusion thinking that goes beyond the session. With years of hands-on experience, our expertise lies in working with the challenges each team faces and supporting them to take action from their starting point, not an arbitrary set of circumstances. We are aspirational in all we do.
- Topics: co-production and co-design, facilitation, embedding EDI practices into business as usual, health inequalities, community research, inclusive design, tackling inequalities, empowering communities, appreciating bias.