Evie Breese interviewed Jemima Amamize – a mentee on Creative Access & Maya Jama’s 2025 MIJ mentorship programme – for The Big Issue’s ‘Opportunity Issue’, guest edited by trailblazing host and producer Amelia Dimoldenberg.
“Jemima Amamize was almost too late. A friend had forwarded her a TikTok video in which broadcaster and media personality Maya Jama called on ambitious women from under-represented backgrounds to apply for her mentorship scheme… In 2025, [Jama] partnered with social enterprise Creative Access to launch a mentorship scheme connecting young women from underrepresented backgrounds with women from her own contact book, spanning talent management, PR, TV production, comedy, music and more.”
Read more for free on the Big Issue website here.
