Dr April-Louise Pennant

Cohort year: 2023

April-Louise Pennant is a scholar-activist and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Cardiff University.  Her work bridges sociology, education, and history, with a focus on reparative justice.  Her current project, The Source of the Stream, traces the legacy of enslaved Africans connected to Penrhyn Castle from Wales to Jamaica and Ghana.  She is the author of Babygirl, You’ve Got This! (Bloomsbury, 2024), which examines the challenges faced by Black girls and women in education. April-Louise co-authored Wales’s award-winning Running Against the Wind report and helped develop the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.

Quote: “I am the vessel through which God and my ancestors work.”

Image credit: Fatima Halidou