Forward Thinking workshop with Dr Ebun Joseph & Dr Naomi Green, Wednesday 1st July 2026, 7pm
Holywell Trust is pleased to welcome Dr Ebun Joseph & Dr Naomi Green to take part in our PEACEPLUS Forward Thinking workshop on Wednesday 1st July, 2026, at 7pm.
Dr Ebun Joseph is a leading Inclusion and race relations consultant, and the founder and CEO of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies (IABS). She serves as Ireland’s Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism and is the module coordinator and lecturer for Black Studies at University College Dublin (UCD)—a pioneering course she established in 2018 as Ireland’s first. Dr Joseph is also the founder of the African Scholars Association Ireland (AfSAI), which she chaired from 2018 to 2022. Her previous roles include Career Development Consultant at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and Training and Employment Officer with the EPIC programme.
An accomplished author, TV panellist, and equality activist, Dr Joseph’s research focuses on race, labour markets, and structural inequality. Her publications include Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the Labour Market (Manchester University Press, 2020); Equity in the Workplace series: Stories of Black Irish Women in Ireland (2024); Stories of Black Irish women in academia (2025), and Challenging Perceptions of Africa in Schools (Routledge, 2020). Dr Joseph is the award winning author of the IRJ Prize awarded to the paper adjudicated to represent the best original contribution to the journal in a given year. ‘Composite counterstorytelling as a technique for challenging ambivalence about race and racism in the labour market in Ireland. She is also a documentary Executive producer of 'Equity in the workplace' and ECHOES OF 2004, and Host of The DEeP Table Dialogue.
Dr Naomi Green is a researcher, lecturer, and community advocate whose work focuses on integration and anti-racism in Northern Ireland. Her PhD examined the experiences of Muslim communities, exploring issues of identity and belonging. She is the lead researcher on the North West Migrants Forum’s Hidden Histories Project, which highlights the overlooked contributions of Black and minority ethnic communities to Northern Irish history and education. She also developed an independent project on Muslim Sailors graves in Belfast City Cemetery.
Naomi is also Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA), former Chair of the Northern Ireland Council for Racial Equality (NICRE) and Executive Member of the NI Interfaith Forum. Her work bridges research, advocacy, and policy, with a strong commitment to building inclusive education and advancing anti-racist practice.
About Forward Thinking
The Forward Thinking project is supported by PEACE PLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). It is funded through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s PEACEPLUS Local Co-Designed Action Plan, under the theme of Celebrating Cultural Diversity.
Forward Thinking is an adult dialogue project focused around the future of North- South and East-West relationships. It includes exploring constitutional questions and challenges from a diverse range of perspectives, and considers NI in a global context.
