Dr. Gabriella Beckles-Raymond is a mother, wife, sister, aunty, friend, coach, baller,
teambuilder, interdisciplinary philosopher, educator, writer, and consultant, who is
passionate about truth, love, justice and the fulfilment of human potential.
She is a visionary strategist with nearly 20 years of national and international experience
shaping educational programs that seek to eradicate racism, sexism, economic oppression,
homophobia, and the lack of emotional intelligence in our societies. Gabby is co-convenor of
the African Diaspora Post-Graduate seminar at Birkbeck University, she led and developed a
for us by us Theology degree program based in south London and put Morgan State
University’s Academic Enrichment Program on the map.
Gabby is a member of the Black Thought Collective and recently co-founded Beckles-
Raymond Ltd - a company dedicated to enabling personal and structural transformation
through education, community development and strategic engagement across the African
and Caribbean diasporas.
See links below for a selection of her work:
Better Must Come Back: Black Pentecostals, the Pandemic and the Future of
Christianity , Presented by Robert Beckford, 2020.
African-Caribbean Women, (Post)? Diaspora, and the Meaning of Home , An
International Journal, 2020.
The Value of Love in Higher Education , Journal of Underrepresented and Minority
Progress , 2019.
Implicit Bias, (Global) White Ignorance and Bad Faith: The Problem of Whiteness and
Anti-Black Racism Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2019.
“Re-Visiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance”, in To Exist is to Resist:
Black Feminism in Europe , Pluto Press, 2019.
Mixed Race Masquerades: The Myth of Multiracial Harmony in Britain , Presentation
at the Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Conference. UCL, 2014 The full
written version is a book chapter available here Philosophy and the Mixed-Race
Experience , Lexington Books, 2016.