Former British championship swimmer Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell has been appointed chief executive of 10,000 Black Interns - an organisation striving to boost representation across UK industry.
The 10,000 Black Interns Foundation launched in 2020 and is seeking to offer 2,000 paid internships each year for five consecutive years. So far, the campaign has partnered with firms from 25 sectors.
Ms Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, who won the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke at the 2010 British Swimming Championships, will now look to further expand the programme, which saw more than 2,000 black students and recent graduates complete paid internships at 600 firms across the UK this summer. Among the companies involved was law firm Osborne Clarke, which hired 11 interns in its offices in Bristol, London and Reading.
