Kimberly McIntosh is a writer and researcher and is currently Senior Policy and Research Officer at Child Poverty Action Group. Previously, she was Senior Policy Officer at The Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank, where she published extensively on race and inequality such as Integration for All: Why Race Equality Matters, Teaching Migration, Belonging, and Empire and was co-author of Intersecting Inequalities: Austerity and BME women. She has written opinion and lifestyle pieces for a range of publications including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent and the Metro, and has discussed her work on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, BBC News and Sky News. Kimberly is the love and dating columnist at gal-dem, a new media publication committed to telling the stories of women and non-binary people of colour and an Associate Editor at Wasafiri, a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing. She sits on the Women’s Budget Group Management Committee and the Mayor of London’s Equality and Diversity Advisory board.

Photo by Betty Laura Zapata.

Listen to Kimberly on BBC Radio 4’s Across the Red Line with Anne McElvoy debating whether US approaches to combating racism are useful in Britain.