Jenny Baskerville
Jenny is the Chief Executive with overall responsibility for strategy, compliance and resources. Jenny also contributes to the Charity’s research programmes and advisory work.
Jenny is a highly respected leader in socio-economic inclusion and brings extensive experience in advancing change to realise social impact. Jenny advises major organisations on socio-economic inclusion best practices, spanning work with the public, corporate and charity sectors and plays a key role in shaping engagement with policymakers, regulators and industry bodies.
She joined the Bridge Group from KPMG UK, where she was formerly Head of Social Mobility and then Director of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity. At KPMG, Jenny oversaw one of the most progressive, evidence-led approaches to socio-economic inclusion in the UK.
Jenny is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business.
Bonita de Boer
Bonita de Boer is Head of Operations, responsible for financial management, governance, HR and the oversight of day-to-day operations. She also contributes to strategic planning and the practical delivery of the Bridge Group's strategy.
Bonita holds a Masters in Development Management and has over sixteen years' experience supporting research and advocacy-focussed charities in developing their operational resilience and efficiency. Her personal interest in promoting social equality made the Bridge Group a natural fit.
Alongside her role at the Bridge Group, Bonita volunteers as Treasurer and Company Secretary for the Ember Learning Trust, a Co-operative Educational Trust that supports six local schools in Surrey.
Dr Aleksandra Kubica
Aleksandra is a Senior Qualitative Researcher, with extensive expertise in qualitative research across education, employment, and the third sector.
At the Bridge Group, Aleksandra has worked with clients including the JLL UK Foundation, the Social Mobility Foundation, and the Sutton Trust, as well as universities, the public sector, and businesses from a range of sectors. She has an interest in socio-economic background inclusion and diversity internationally, building on her experience as an EDI consultant and researcher in Poland and her work across Europe.
Aleksandra holds a PhD from King’s College London, where she researched collaborative museum-making and engaging audiences with difficult memory. She also researched and taught about collective memory, history education and migration. Prior to joining the Bridge Group, Aleksandra worked in academia, heritage and education in the UK, Poland and other European countries.
Dr Soyoung Kweon
Soyoung is a Senior Quantitative Researcher, responsible for designing, undertaking and delivering quantitative research at the Bridge Group.
Her PhD thesis assessed hiring discrimination across gender, parenthood and class in the UK using an experimental design. She was also involved in a research project about mothers’ and fathers’ use of UK parental leave.
She is also highly motivated to translate research into actions that promote social equality. Working alongside Citizens Advice, she led a project generating accessible research evidence for policy stakeholders such as Local Authorities and NGOs to tackle fuel poverty.
Valentina Perinetti Casoni
Valentina is a Quantitative Researcher and contributes to the design and delivery of our quantitative research. She has several years of experience contributing to academic research projects focused on educational inequalities and unequal trajectories of development of children and young people from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Valentina’s research focuses on inequalities in education and aims to produce robust, policy-relevant, quantitative evidence of how educational systems and policies can either reinforce or combat unfairness, inequalities, and social stratification. Much of her recent work has focused on investigating school- and classroom-related mechanisms that affect students’ achievement and learning experiences.
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