Reclaiming Our Heritage Project

Alina

Alina trained as a doctor, before moving to health improvement with a focus on BAME communities. Within this role she worked with women’s groups from diverse backgrounds in projects which encouraged conversations about mental health using art.

Name: Alina Mirza 

Years: 1990s – 2000s 

Alina trained as a doctor, before moving to health improvement with a focus on BAME communities. Within this role she worked with women’s groups from diverse backgrounds in projects which encouraged conversations about mental health using art.

She is now a festival programme, and co-ordinates the UK Asian Film Festival.

Excerpts: 

“The perception of mental health is taken immediately as an illness …. well, mental health, we are not talking about illness, it’s about something we all have.”