Chancellor Natalie Campbell shares her experience of working with one of our talented University of Westminster graduates.
Picture the moment, October 2023, WeNetwork – the University’s Enterprise hub – is hosting an entrepreneurship event and I am a speaker alongside the ever-brilliant Levi Roots. In the audience, an MA Marketing Management student makes a decision, she decides that she is going to work with me one day. At the time, I know nothing about this. It’s a great event, with great questions (a couple from the student in question). It makes me even more enthused about the year ahead and with that I head home.
Fast forward to Feb 2024, I’m in the middle of my campaign to run for Mayor of London and I share a job ad looking for paid campaign interns to support me for two months. I get a few applications from the Westminster community – one of which is the student who attended the event in October. She gets the job and in true Westminster style she shines bright and becomes one of my right-hand people. She is the calm in the storm and my ‘can-do…let’s do this…we got this’ champion. She used what she learnt at Westminster to make the hardest bit of the campaign, dare I say it, easier. At this point, she hadn’t told me that she was in the audience that day and the promise she made to herself.
Now to the present moment, as I write this I am sitting opposite Sunakshi Shetty, the tenacious, skillfull, resilient Westminster graduate who decided she was going to make her promise a reality. She is now the Brand and Social Media Executive for Belu, working with me and the wider team in a full-time, permanent capacity. Promise fulfilled (and now I know all about how we met and why). This story is the perfect example of the Westminster vision, mission and values coming to life – Sunakshi is contributing to a more sustainable, equitable and healthier society.
As I head into my third year as Chancellor, I feel rather blessed to be a part of something so good. My ask for 2025 is for everyone to continue supporting our students in every way possible. The mentoring, funding and job opportunities you offer are transformative for our talented students and truly eye-opening for us as employers.
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