Liz Pemberton (she/her) is the Director of The Black Nursery Manager Ltd – a training & consultancy company which focuses on anti-racist practice within Early Years. With 20 years in the education sector, Liz’s roles have included Secondary School Teacher (QTS), public speaker and up until 2020, Nursery Manager, allowing her to teach, manage, support and educate Early Years students, practitioners and professionals in a variety of forums.

Liz’s mission is to continue to promote inclusive practice in the Early Years sector, with a particular focus on how race, culture and ethnicity should be considered in this practice. Liz has developed a fantastic network of likeminded practitioners and professionals by sharing her expertise about why anti-racist pedagogy must be a thread that runs throughout early years practice. With bespoke CPD that she has developed and delivered to a range of clients locally, nationally and internationally. Liz wants to help the adults who care for and educate children under 5 to deepen their knowledge about anti-racism as a series of ongoing, conscious and intentional actions.

Liz’s accolades include being recognised in 2024 by Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage as 1 of 100 Black Women Who Have Made a Mark, nominated as a finalist for trainer of the year for the 2022 Nursery World Awards, recognised by the Black Cultural Archives as one of their 2022 40×40 Future Leaders, winner of the 2022 Guardian Angel award at the Glomama Awards and in 2021 securing her place as the winner of the Community Unsung She-ro award at the Multicultural Business & Community Champion Awards (MBCC).