In 2019, Kerry-Ann Knight was the face of a British army recruitment drive, promoting diversity and self-belief among millennials. However, behind the scenes, she had been enduring years of sexist and racist harassment. By 2021, she decided to take action and lodged an internal complaint, but found the process within the military to be long, isolating, and flawed. This summer, Knight and her lawyer Emma Norton took the Ministry of Defence to an employment tribunal to seek justice for the harassment she had faced.
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In 2019, Kerry-Ann Knight was the face of a British army recruitment drive, which read: ‘Me Me Me Millennials. Your Army Needs You and Your Self Belief.’
It was part of the military’s efforts to enlist a more diverse set of recruits, but, as Kerry-Ann tells Hannah Moore, behind the scenes she had been facing years of sexist and racist harassment.
By 2021, she had had enough and lodged an internal complaint. But as her lawyer Emma Norton explains, the process within the military is long, isolating and deeply flawed. And so this summer, Knight and Norton took the Ministry of Defence to an employment tribunal.
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