Kacey’s NEU activism

As a workplace rep, Kacey has greatly increased membership in her school and encouraged members to engage in Union campaigns over pay and workload.
Kacey has supported individual members in her workplace to ensure that they are treated fairly.
A regular source of support for LGBT+ NEU members who are facing discrimination in their workplaces.

Kacey’s message to LGBT+ Educators on on the eve of strike action

Kacey has organised a range of online and real life events for LGBT+ educators, including key LGBT+ activist voices into NEU spaces - for example Kuchenga, Robin Moira White and Veronica McKenzie.
Kacey’s address to members attending the 2022 NEU LGBT+ conference
Supported members to apply pressure to the NEU Executive committee to take action following the apparent promotion of a book which has been widely labelled anti-trans.
An active member of Coventry NEU, Kacey is the District Equality Officer and drives forward equalities work within the district.
Before becoming the LGBT+ members’ representative on the NEU Executive Committee, Kacey represented LGBT+ members from the Midlands on the NEU’s LGBT+ Organising Forum.
Kacey is the former co-chair of the NEU Trans and Non-binary Educators’ network and was involved in developing resources to support Trans and Non-binary educators in their workplaces.

Watch Kacey accept the ‘Most Inspirational Network’ award at the 2018 NEU LGBT+ Educators’ Conference

Since her election in 2020, Kacey has represented LGBT+ Members on the NEU’s Executive Committee. She sits on the NEU Policy Committee and the NEU Equalities Committee, working with the NEU Executive Committee to ensure that the needs of LGBT+ members are understood and accounted for.
As a disabled member, Kacey regularly attends the NEU Disabled Members’ Conference. She actively challenges both ableism and racism within the NEU and beyond.
Kacey is an active and vociferous member of the TUC LGBT+ Committee, where she has developed exceptionally strong working relationships with members from other unions.
Led in the creation of the TUC LGBT+ Conference motion on collectively working for trans rights. Kacey moved this motion at the TUC LGBT+ Conference, and it was prioritised to send to the TUC Congress. The final speech to move the motion, which was passed by TUC Congress in 2022, was written by Kacey and delivered on her behalf (who was unable to attend due to teaching commitments).
Leading in the writing and winning of several motions at NEU LGBT+ conference and NEU National Conference, Kacey ensures that she seeks to link the struggle for LGBT+ liberation with the wider fight for equalities.