CAREERS TRAILBLAZERS
TRAILBLAZERS BOB CLARKE B ob Clarke hardly had an easy go of it. Though he’s now an established freelance editor and the CEO of MAMA Youth Project, he quit school at 15, joined the army at 17 and entered the workforce at 31 with no formal
qualifications and a limited skillset. Eventually, he landed a position at a video warehouse, making deliveries to an operation centre. “It was like Christmas,” Clarke recalls, thinking of the centre filled with filming equipment. He immediately asked for a job there. One day, he got one. “I burst through the doors and went running home,” he remembers. “I could see everything – the violence I’ve seen in my life, all the negativity, the racism. I was running into a new life, and I was washing the past away,” he says. “That’s the essence of MAMA Youth Project,” Clarke continues, which he founded several years later. “We’ve given over one thousand people that life-changing moment.”
WORDS KATIE KASPERSON We sit down with the founder and CEO of MAMA Youth Project to define diversity and inclusion and discuss whether the industry has evolved
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