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Fiona Igwe is currently working as a Medical Officer in London. Fiona founded a non-profit on educating communities on life-saving skills internationally and in the UK.
‘Fiona’s Project’ was stimulated in 2013 and was poignantly inspired by the untimely death of her grandmother due to a cardiac arrest. The organisation has a multitude of projects including first aid awareness, mental health awareness and HIV awareness.
She has recently opened a community centre in Nigeria which offers free healthcare and non-healthcare services to locals.
Fiona was also instrumental in the decision of UEA Vice-Chancellor David Richardson to Advance-HE’s Race Equality Charter in October 2018. Alongside leading the ‘Decolonising UEA’ campaign, she is the mind behind Eradicate Hate [an anti-racism campaign] and an anonymous reporting system enabling students and staff to report hate crimes attributed to race.
I was completely astonished when I received the letter regarding the award. For a while I believed it was a prank! I learnt so many life lessons during the three years I spent studying at UEA, so it’s an absolute honour to receive this award.