Karmel Edmonds

Business Development Lead

Pronouns: She/Her

At Challenge Works Karmel is our Business Development Lead, delivering the organisation's strategic campaigns. Previously at Nesta, she was part of the Future News Fund team - encouraging innovation in public interest news and also as part of the Rocket Fund team, taking an internal startup to scale, attracting investors and facilitating a spin-out.Karmel loves programmes, projects and ideas which have humans at their heart and has spent fifteen years working in grassroots community-focused organisations around the UK designing and implementing programmes, often with a creative edge. She’s dabbled in festival coordination and knows her way around a comms strategy.

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