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Lizzie Cain is part of Co-Production Collective, an open community based at UCL which exists to support co-production across research, policy and practice. Whatever our identity and experience, we work together in equal partnership to create better outcomes for everyone.

Sherone Phillips tells us more about herself, and what motivated her to apply to become a National Voices Trustee

We’re all familiar with the rhetoric that diverse boards make better decisions. And most boards have made some sort of progress on gender diversity by now. But when we at National Voices took a good hard look at ourselves ahead of recruiting new trustees earlier this year, we realised that if we were serious about having a truly diverse board we needed to do something different. As the saying goes, ‘if you always do what you’ve always done; you’ll always get what you’ve always got’.