Until recently, Kamna was the Programme Director of the Children’s Mental Health programme at Impact on Urban Health. Her work ranged from developing and delivering a programme strategy to identify innovative approaches to tackling the root causes of children’s mental health issues and developing approaches that centred the knowledge and expertise of parents and communities in the programme’s work. Previously, she worked at Paul Hamlyn Foundation, where she worked in policy and advanced the organisation’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion learning journey. Prior to that, she worked at The National Lottery Community Fund. She began her career working at Newham Asian Women’s Project (Now, London Black Women’s Project), working with young women and girls to build confidence and self-esteem while conducting research and delivering training for statutory service providers to raise awareness about the culturally specific issues impacting on Asian women’s health and wellbeing. In her voluntary life, Kamna is the Chair at Institute for Voluntary Action Research and trustee of a small charity, OKMT, which provides music therapy to young children and adults experiencing a range of mental and physical disabilities. She is also a member of Edge Fund, a participatory grant-making body and is interested in shifting power in grant-making.
