Biography
Christine Burns is an Equality and Diversity specialist who was born close to London's East End and who made a home in the North West when she went to Manchester University in the early 1970's.
She made her name for the extensive work she did in support of the trans rights campaign, as a vice president of the British lobby organisation Press for Change, and was awarded an MBE for that work in the Queen's New Year's Honours list in 2004.
Since that time she has developed a professional consultancy business (Plain Sense Ltd) covering all aspects of equality and social diversity in Britain. She is an appointed advisor to the Department of Health and her clients include strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and several charities. She has also been elected twice to Chair the North West Equality and Diversity Group - a forum of over seventy public, private and voluntary sector organisations covering all diversities.
To help showcase the kinds of issues she teaches about and champions, Christine launched a specialist Podcast channel in March 2008. Just Plain Sense has since covered a wide variety of personalities and topics – mostly in a relaxed interview style.
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