Katharine Birbalsingh

Biography

Katharine Moana Birbalsingh (born 16 September 1973) is an education reform advocate and the founder and head teacher of Michaela Community School, a free school established in 2014 in Wembley Park, London. The daughter of an Indo-Guyanese academic and a Jamaican nurse, Birbalsingh was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada until she was 15, when she moved to England. She cultivated an interest in education when reading French and philosophy at New College, Oxford and, after graduating, went into teaching at state schools in south London.

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