What’s your job role and background?
I’m an Imam, which is a Muslim chaplain at HMP Oakwood prison. My background – so I’ve worked promoting business, marketing and branding, specialising in book design covers and video production, branding for various companies. I did that for maybe 10 – 12 years and I realised that it wasn’t really fulfilling for me. I wanted to do something else, and during that time I was studying my faith and an opportunity at the prison came up for an Imam and someone told me, look you are qualified to be an Imam. In the Muslim faith, you don’t actually study to become an Imam, you just study your faith, so you are actually qualified, and I didn’t realise that. So, I applied for the Imam role and I wanted to apply for it because I really wanted to support my community and give back and do something in my life that can help people. So I became an Imam in the prison system.