About Mission Equality
A remote, global team committed to doing business differently and creating our own ecosystem of equality for ourselves and the people we work with.
About Us & Our Values
Mission Equality is a UK-registered Community Interest Company (CIC), limited by guarantee. This means that there is no share capital nor dividends to pay and any profits made are put directly back into the organisation to further its mission.
The way we operate at Mission Equality is driven by our values which are embedded across the organisation in the way we do everything. Our values and what they mean to us are:
Equality – We are committed to achieving equality and working in an ecosystem of equality, for everyone. And we mean everyone.
Transparency – We strive to communicate clearly and directly, even when it’s hard; and we commit to sharing our own organisational journey as openly as we can for others to learn from too.
Integrity – We DO what we say we’re going to do. Even when no-one’s looking.
Trust and freedom – An intentional choice to replace the dominant paradigms of power and control and provide the flexibility, freedom and trust for our people to know and determine for themselves what will help them thrive (and we support them to identify this).
Adaptability and agility – Operating from a paradigm of trust and freedom requires practices that allow for adaptability, agility and the ability to meet peoples’ needs, individually and collectively, in every aspect of of their working lives.
Radical Personal Responsibility – Everyone is responsible for leading themselves, first and foremost, before they lead others.
Progression, growth & learning – We believe that a commitment to progression, learning and growing through the challenges we face benefits everyone. This includes a default to questioning the status quo – at every level – individually, collectively and systemically.
We are led and run by a small but high impact team and are slowly building a globally distributed team of world class contributors and creators.
Who We Are
We operate our leadership framework based upon a concept of guardianship rather than ownership; this means that at any one time we aim to have at least two guardians in place to guide the direction of the organisation towards its mission, and support the team working on the mission as needed. Read more about the current and former guardians below…
Current Guardians
Lea, a former management consultant at Accenture, has almost two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, remote COO and business owner, leading fully remote teams of diverse employees and contractors around the globe. She was an early pioneer of the digital nomad movement as the founder of the world-renowned blog, Location Independent, and has helped thousands of people create the freedom to work from anywhere.
Lea was previously the co-founder and COO of another EdTech company based in the USA. Under Lea’s leadership, the company was built as an explicitly anti-racist company fully committed to diversity, equity and belonging to create a safe working environment for Black, Brown and other deliberately disadvantaged communities…until Lea resigned after ongoing racism from her co-founder & CEO!
Lea lives in the UK with her two children who are home educated.
Gemma is the Managing Director of a global talent agency focused on inclusivity, equity, and economic empowerment. Her work connects marginalised individuals, including single parents, neurodivergent talent, LGBTQIA+ professionals, and those in the Global South, with opportunities typically inaccessible to them.
As an advisory board member and independent consultant, Gemma has supported grassroots charities—including Savera UK, Mary Seacole House, and LAAF—in designing and implementing policy frameworks aligned with equality-driven missions. Gemma has been involved in advocating for systemic improvements within the energy sector, focusing on addressing structural inequalities such as wage disparity and the socioeconomic barriers that affect underrepresented communities.
As a single mother of neurodivergent, home-educated twins, Gemma has transformed her home in the UK into a vibrant, multifunctional space. It serves as a workplace and educational hub while also accommodating the needs of a multigenerational family. Her ability to balance these roles while pursuing meaningful societal change reflects her resilience, adaptability, and commitment to progress on both personal and systemic levels.
Mae has worked for over a decade in outside-the-box education modalities, applying progressive education principles to facilitate growth for learners from pre-K through to adulthood. Their on-the-ground teaching experience includes time both in and out of ‘the system.’
Mae was formally trained as an educator at the University of Toronto and has taught in a range of institutions from public schools to Nunavut Arctic College, while also creating community programming ‘around the edges,’ particularly geared toward the arts and Disabled youth.
Both a creative and a systematic thinker, Mae taps into their affinity for blending structured frameworks with engaging visuals to create high quality educational experiences from behind a computer screen rather than in front of a classroom. Most recently, they led a team developing progressive education resources for a global audience at a disruptive EdTech company, with a strong emphasis on learner empowerment, diverse representation, and cross-disciplinary learning.
Mae’s passion areas include Neurodiversity justice, issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community, and all paths toward authentic, holistic, accessible and diverse education for every learner at every life stage.
Mae lives in Canada with their partner and children as they work and learn alongside one another at home.
Former Guardians
Sharon Hurley Hall is an educator, writer and anti-racism activist. She previously led the Diversity, Equity and Belonging team at a disruptive Ed Tech startup, where she was instrumental in operationalising a progressive approach to anti-racism across the business.
Sharon is the Founder and Curator-in-Chief of Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter, a twice-weekly online publication sharing global experiences of racism and guidance on better allyship. She is also the author of anti-racism essay collection “I’m Tired of Racism”, and “Exploring Shadeism”, which deals with colourism.
A certified diversity and belonging facilitator and culture assessor, Sharon has facilitated numerous groups empowering participants to work towards anti-racism and equality. Sharon is also a public speaker covering racism, anti-racism and diversity topics.
Building Our Own Ecosystem
As a UK-based Community Interest Company (CIC), Mission Equality is open to receiving philanthropic funding to further our mission, as well as offering paid services to fund ourselves. Any profits we make are put towards furthering our mission.
One of the ways we want to do this is to encourage organisations, companies and collectives who can commit financial resources to creating change, to do so as a way of redistributing resources…not to shareholders or ‘owners’ of the company but to people from historically and deliberately disadvantaged communities who request financial support.
Support The Mission
The path to equality needs a collective effort with resources of all types playing a part. As ever, in the current system, money counts. Can you financially support our mission and the path we’re paving?