Wrap & Chat: Siyona Parekh

Episode 4.

Guest: Siyona Parekh, Student (Year 10) - Ada Lovelace Church of England School.

Who is Ada Lovelace?.

• Siyona’s top 3 personality traits / strengths required to enter the creative industry:

  1) Perseverance.

  2) Confidence.

  3) Patience.

To celebrate both National Career’s Week (7th - 12th March 2022) - whose mission is about Empowering Positive Change through Careers Education - and also International Women’s Day 2022 (8th March 2022) - whose campaign focus is around breaking the bias women face in moving ahead in their lives and how they can take positive action; we were delighted to sit down with our youngest guest, Siyona Parekh, a Year 10 student at Ada Lovelace Church of England School, London, UK.

Proactive with an inquisitive mindset and grounding support from her parents, Siyona is embarking on her chosen creative pathway - jewellery / fashion design - with immense self awareness, enthusiasm and passion for her subject matter which is infectious.

For the past few months, Siyona and I have been liaising on securing a fashion internship for her in summer 2022, whilst also investigating all the creative career options available to her and the viable routes she can take to achieve her goals. To be honest, it was genuinely refreshing and a delight to speak with a much younger female about the world as they see it currently and how they can honour the International Women’s Day 2022 campaign #BreakTheBias.

Siyona’s most underrated tool (which is indispensable for her to do creative work) are - online apps and resources - Photopea (the free version of photoshop) or Procreate. Siyona feels these tools are necessary to allow her to be free in her art expression and designing. Whether it’s sketching faces or people, to clothes and logos, they have a wide variety of tools that can change one’s perspective on different things. Also, Siyona noted these digital apps can be a great starting point for beginners to experiment and find what they enjoy or for professionals who are improving and expanding their creativity knowledge bank.

I have no doubt that Siyona’s family, school and peer group are incredibly proud of her. Definitely one to watch, we promise to keep the creative conversation going with Miss Siyona as she evolves into the creative force she’s destined to be…

Click the link and listen to episode 4 of Wrap & Chat: Culture in Conversation to hear more about what Siyona Parekh had to say.

Ada Lovelace Church of England School