Kay Rufai
Kay Rufai’s mission is to challenge the negative stereotypes of black boys while providing them with positive tools to navigate their mental well-being. Kay Rufai achieves this through providing eight-week long projects to schools in London, advocating for a revisitation of discriminatory and consciously biased treatments of black children in comparison to their white counterparts, especially in the case of black boys. Re-imagining the visuals of S.M.I.L.E-ing black boys faces through exhibitions and installations across London, for example at the Mayor’s Office City Hall, Battersea Arts Centre, Brixton Village, Theatre Peckham, nationally and internationally. Kay Rufai delivers robust training programmes to teachers & professionals across the education, arts, policy making and criminal justice sector.