Tabitha Morton (Chair)

Tabitha is the Executive Director of UN Women UK, whose mission is to ensure every woman and girl has access to safety, choice and a voice. UN Women is the only global organisation working to make gender equality a reality in every way: from grassroots programmes with the most vulnerable women and girls to changing attitudes, and helping governments design gender-equal policy.

Previously, Tabitha led the team at a cross-party campaigning organisation bringing MPs together on issues such as climate crisis, reforming health and social care and mental health systems. As Deputy Leader of The Women’s Equality Party, she has worked to make ending violence against women and girls a political priority for all parties. Before getting into politics and campaigning she spent 15 years in the construction and manufacturing industry and was the first woman to be on the UK board of her organisation.

Cynthia Griffin (Vice Chair)

Cynthia Griffin is a Strategic Director who worked for over 20 years at board level in local government and national local government organisations. She spent two years as the managing director of a social and economic policy consultancy and has worked as an independent consultant for the last 4 years, primarily focusing on economic policy and skills-related work. Cynthia has a strong interest in social policy and social justice.

Cynthia joined the Board at STADA in 2018. She is a Governor at New City College, a Further Education College Group in East London, and has previous experience as a non-executive director.  

Patricia Price (Treasurer)

Patricia Price is a Cipfa qualified accountant. Patricia has worked in local government finance for over thirty-five years and has held various senior positions including twenty years as Assistant Director of Finance. Patricia has been responsible for Accountancy, Capital Finance, Internal Audit, Treasury Management, and Annual accounts. Patricia also has extensive experience in budget setting and budget monitoring and working within the local government finance system. As part of these responsibilities, Patricia has many years of experience in managing various groups of staff ranging from four to fifty people. Patricia has experience in all the main managerial processes of recruitment, target setting, appraisals, performance monitoring, sickness monitoring, and conducting disciplinary hearings.

Patricia has also approximately ten years of experience in collating, monitoring and reporting performance indicators in local government. This experience is directly relevant to the Trustee Board in relation to Finance, HR and performance management. In addition, Patricia has been a school governor for eighteen years. Patricia has held various roles such as Vice-chair of the governing body and Chair of Finance. Patricia has also been the treasurer of a scout group for eleven years.

Tracey Joseph

A qualified programme designer with over 15 years in the voluntary sector. She has both professional and personal experiences of domestic abuse and is an advocate for survivors and their families. 

She has volunteered in the sector supporting domestic abused families in the UK and has worked globally across two continents supporting vulnerable groups on the ground. She has extensive experience and knowledge of planning projects UK wide and designing programmes for underrepresented communities. She also has many years in the sector assessing grants, capacity-building grassroots organisations through support with grant applications, and working with academic researchers on project outcomes, and policy writing. 

She is a writer, currently writing a book about domestic abuse in the black community. Passionate about the work that Standing Together does, she has been a trustee since 2021.