Joseph Harker

Joseph Harker is Senior Editor, Diversity, and Development at The Guardian. He has also been co-lead of the Guardian's Legacies of Enslavement project – which examined the links between the Guardian's founder and transatlantic slavery, issued an apology, and drew up a £10m+ restorative justice action plan.   Joseph also sits on the board of the Society of Editors.  Joseph is a former Guardian Deputy Opinion Editor. And for over 20 years he has run the Guardian's Positive Action Scheme, which offers enhanced work experience to aspiring journalists who are ethnic-minority or have a disability: many have gone on to have successful media careers. Before joining the Guardian, Joseph was Editor and Publisher of the weekly newspaper Black Briton, and prior to that he was Assistant Editor at The Voice newspaper.