The WP Team keep in contact with our participants long after they attend LSE on pre-entry programmes.
Many of our past participants also find time to return to Widening Participation to work as student staff, as Course Directors on our Summer Schools, or as guest speakers on other programmes.
Below you can read about the exciting journeys these WP Alumni have been on since graduating.
Anna-Mariya Angelinova
Anna-Mariya studied Law at LSE and was on Pathways to Law prior to this. What she enjoyed about university the most was the independence, the people and the opportunities. Working at her own pace allowed Anna-Mariya to fully immerse herself in university life and not only enjoy her subject, but also meet incredible people and wholly pursue outside interests.
Anna-Mariya graduated from LSE in 2018, she is currently completing her Legal Practice Course (LPC) and combined masters at BPP University, with a training contract at Taylor Wessing commencing in August 2019.
Hayat Askar
Hayat studied International History at LSE and graduated in 2017. Before this, she took part in LSE CHOICE. During her time as an LSE students, Hayat was a Student Ambassador for three years, helping at the Year 11 Summer School, Promoting Potential and conducting many tours and student shadowing sessions. WP was a hugely rewarding part of her LSE experience as well as being a Teach First Brand Manager and President of the Somali Society.
Hayat is currently in her second year of the Civil Service Fast Stream as a Generalist and will be moving on to be a trainee lawyer at Linklaters in September.
Kim To
Kim studied BSc Economic History at LSE. Prior to this she completed LSE CHOICE and also another WP programme involving History at Cambridge.
At university Kim enjoyed the freedom to get involved in as many things as possible - she was the events officer for Passfield Hall, so got involved in organising events for everyone in her halls. Kim was also the Vice President of the consulting society since she was interested in getting more people interested in the world of consulting. She took part in the WP summer school economics class as a course assistant. Meeting many people from different backgrounds to Kim was particularly interesting because she got to understand and appreciate different perspectives.
Since graduating in 2015, Kim spent two years on the graduate scheme at PwC management consulting. She then decided to return to LSE to complete her masters degree in Population and Development. Kim now works at Wellington Management which is an asset management firm in a research capacity. She is responsible for helping her manager research companies to invest in.
Rukhsana Begum
Rukhsana was a part of the first cohort of LSE Choice Summer School for Sociology and graduated from LSE in 2010 after studying BSc Sociology. After graduating, she then went onto doing a Masters’ degree at SOAS, University of London in Critical Media & Cultural Studies. For Rukhsana, the best part of university was the people – she was fortunate enough to be a part of a small cohort studying Sociology with around 30 in the group which meant that they all knew each other over the 3 years and supported each other up until the point of graduating.
Following her studies, Rukhsana started working at Thomson Reuters, within Human Resources, more specifically in People Development. She spent 7 years there working in various roles and has been fortunate enough to travel across the globe with work. Rukhsana then moved to Deloitte, where she has been for the last 6 months. Rukhsana has expertise in Talent Management, Performance Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Early Careers and all aspects of People Development.
Suad Abdi
Saud studied Law at LSE. During school, she took part in a number of widening participation programmes, including the Year 11 Summer School at LSE and the UNIQ Summer School at Oxford.
After graduating in 2017, Saud went to law school to do the Legal Practice Course and is now 6 months into a training contract at Freshfields. Saud enjoyed her time at university and was particularly grateful for the independence, the diverse student community and the wide range of extra-curricular activities.
Tashan Nicholas
Tashan has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Honours from the University of Southampton. He was originally on the LSE CHOICE scheme in 2008 specialising in economics.
After graduating in 2014, Tashan took on the role of econometrician within a media agency. After 3 years he learnt how important the use of econometrics is in the world of attribution. Now a consultant at Ebiquity Tashan specialises in translating data into actionable insights and managing projects to deadline.