Tasha Cowperthwaite
ELEVATE CJS Project Manager
After an 8-year career in the care sector, supporting individuals through rehab and crisis, Tasha spent just under 5 years working in social housing. She managed a community centre and developed Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) programs to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve community cohesion in areas of high deprivation. She also worked for a charity supporting child survivors of domestic violence and their families.
Venturing into social enterprise, Tasha specifically developed programs and courses for young people experiencing the criminal justice system (CJS) to increase their employability, social, and life skills. This includes partnering on the Culture Exchange Program, led by London’s own Social Ark.
Tasha leads the CJA’s leadership programme, ELEVATE CJS, which aims to promote the redistribution of power to people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.
Contact Tasha: tasha.cowperthwaite@criminaljusticealliance.org.uk