Mélina Valdelièvre is a Senior Education Officer for Equalities at Education Scotland. Mélina started her career as a secondary English teacher and started engaging in anti-racist activism through her work in teacher trade unions and with the Scottish Association for Minority Ethnic Educators (SAMEE). After completing a Masters in Education focused on anti-racist education, and receiving a scholarship to research racial dialogue in education in the USA, Mélina co-founded the website, podcast and collective, The Anti-Racist Educator. In 2021, Mélina joined Education Scotland where she led the anti-racist professional learning programme, Building Racial Literacy, for two years. In her current position as a Senior Education Officer for Equalities, Mélina continues to focus on anti-racist education, particularly through her promotion of Scotland’s anti-racist curriculum principles, Breaking the Mould, and her role as the co-chair of the Curriculum Reform subgroup of the Scottish Government’s Anti-Racism in Education Programme. As an Advisor for Museums Galleries Scotland’s Delivering Change project, she also has a keen interest in decoloniality, intersectionality and anti-oppressive principles.