Sadiya Abjani
is the Director of Training and Instructional Design at SAGE, an advocacy and services organisation dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders. In this role Sadiya manages content development and training for the SAGECare program, which trains and credentials elder care providers on providing culturally competent care for LGBTQ+ older adults. Previously, Sadiya worked as the Corporate Training Coordinator at the Equal Rights Center, where she delivered trainings on Fair Housing, Disability Rights, and Sensitivity and Diversity. She has done extensive work within the elder community, including developing a large project surveying depression among South Asian elders, and has almost 16 years of public speaking experience.
Tony Collins-Moore is the Carers Wellbeing Academy Manager for the Carers Centre Tower Hamlets. He has forty years’ experience of working in the health and social care. Tony is a qualified Advocate specialising in the Care Act and unpaid Carers as well as being a safeguarding, hate crime, VAWG, DV specialist.
Tony is a HIV/AIDS champion and is married to his husband and loves his fur babies. “He is queer and will not tolerate injustice, discrimination and the Tories.”