Dr Sarabajaya Kumar

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar is a scholar-activist, Director of Impatience Ltd, an organisation set up to support and host innovative public benefit projects, and an Associate Professor in Voluntary & Non-Profit Sector Policy and Leadership at University College London (UCL). Her research interests are in Accountability, Governance, Ethical Leadership, and Equality. She has been working on social justice issues, including gender and disability equity, for the last three decades.
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Equalities Adviser, Bar Standards Board

Sarabajaya leads her own research and advice consultancy, is an Equalities Adviser to the Bar Standards Board, and an Executive Coach and Mentor.

She is active in civil society and has founded and cofounded a number of non-profit organisations. Currently, she is also a member of the Women’s Budget Group’s Policy Advisory Committee, a Senior Independent Trustee of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), a steering committee member of Centenary Action, and a steering group member of the Women’s Equality Party.

Sarabajaya contested the 2021 GLA election as a list candidate for the Women’s Equality Party. She was one of 11 women selected nationally, and the only disabled candidate to be supported in her candidacy by the Activate Collective (ElectHer).