Our Staff and Board are interdisciplinary and multi-skilled, but most importantly we are compassionate and dedicated to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice. Read more about us below! Our list of staff is based on teams; running from Early Years up through the ages to our Bright Choices project. Click each photo to read their full bio.
Chief Executive Officer
Ethelinda Lashley-Scott
Ethelinda Lashley-Scott has spent over two decades shaping Scotland’s creative and social impact landscape, br...
Business Operations Coordinator
Elizabeth Hampson
Elizabeth is the Business Operations Coordinator at MCFB. She supports her colleagues by managing the day to d...
Project Worker
Carol Chan
Carol is an experienced educator in early years and special needs who has dedicated over 25 years to supportin...
8+ Project Leader
Hannah Kearns
Hannah first came to MCFB as a student social worker in May 2019 and stayed on as a volunteer for the Mosaic P...
Safe Haven Project Leader & Antenatal Project Worker
Muhanad Al Jama
Originally from Syria – I came to Scotland in 2020 after living in Greece and Germany. I am passionate a...
Co-Chair
Carol Paton
Carol is a qualified solicitor and has over 25 years’ experience in managing litigation and regulatory investi...
Director
Ezinne Maduka
I am a medical doctor and one of the beneficiaries of MCFB, having had a first-hand experience of the lovely c...
Director
Jakki Jeffery
Jakki is the Assistant Principal for Creative Industries at Edinburgh College and has worked there since 2006....
Treasurer
Lauren Collman
Lauren is a CIMA chartered accountant with finance and accounting experience in the banking and defence indust...
Director
Marianne Hughes
After returning from VSO in Nigeria, Marianne qualified (in Edinburgh) as a social worker and worked in commun...
Vice Chair
Mary Bainbridge
After living and working in North Carolina and the West Midlands while bringing up her family, Mary returned t...
Director
Jessica Saridakis
Jessica is a full-time delivery manager in the finance sector, specializing in software development. Originall...
Early Years Project Leader
Giselle Lowe
Giselle has completed her PhD in Social anthropology which has a focus on the antenatal and postnatal experien...
Director
David Lister
David is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience. He has worked in professional services suppor...
Employability Assistant
Temi Alonge
Temi joined Multicultural Family Base as an Employability Assistant Project Worker, supporting individuals fro...
Director
Bonus Fombo
Bonus Fombo is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience with expertise in budgeting, forecasting a...
Dalia Impiglia
Dalia is the project worker for the Safe Haven project. She’s half Italian and half Syrian, and has spent seve...
8+ Project Worker
Lavanya Balasubramanian
Lavanya is an Art Psychotherapist and Project Worker on the 8+ Project. In her work with groups and individual...
Finance Controller
Leslie Mwangi
Leslie joined Multicultural Family Base as the Finance Controller, supporting the organisation’s financi...
Project Worker
Nyree Troughton
Nyree is a HCPC registered Art Therapist and Project Worker in the Bright Choices project. With a varied backg...