Verity is the Regional Director for Yorkshire at the Reach Foundation; she facilitates the Yorks100 programme for aspiring headteachers in Yorkshire, and designs and delivers training on embedding strong relationships for Reach Foundation's Cradle to Career Partnership. She's interested in promoting and codifying excellent relationship-centred practice in education settings as a way to support children, young people and their families to access lives of choice and opportunity. She is also a proud governor at Co-op Academy Grange. Previously, she was an Assistant Vice Principal at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, with responsibility for curriculum and community engagement, an Assistant Headteacher (Curriculum and Assessment) and Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Reach Academy. She set up the MFL London network in 2016, completed the Limited Resources Teacher Training programme in Uganda in 2013, and was part of the 2011 Teach First cohort.