Recruiting, Developing and Retaining Diverse Talent to Break Cycles of Reoffending

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Natasha Porter (PID066)

Author

Natasha Porter

Chief Executive and Founder, Unlocked Graduates, United Kingdom

Natasha is the founder and CEO of Unlocked Graduates, one of the UK’s largest prison reform charities. Unlocked develops leaders who work in prisons to break cycles of reoffending. Since 2017, our flagship graduate programme has placed nearly 900 top graduates in 38 prisons across England and Wales, reaching more than 125,000 prisoners.

Prior to Unlocked, Natasha was a teacher and leader in inner city schools, co-founding King Solomon Academy and leading their frontier cohort to groundbreaking GCSE results in 2014. Between 2014 and 2016 Natasha was deputy head of education at Policy Exchange, and an adviser at the Department for Education and Ministry of Justice.

Natasha is an adviser to the Children’s Commissioner and a member of The Times Crime and Justice Commission. She is also a charity trustee at Impetus PEF and Get Further. She sits on the Grants and Evaluation committee at the Youth Endowment Fund and the Building Future’s Advisory Board at Prison Reform Trust. In 2025, Natasha was named Young Australian of the Year in the UK. She was also awarded an OBE for services to HM Prison and Probation Service in the 2023 New Year Honours List.

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