A former journalist, editor, publisher and producer, Jo has a long association in Croydon as the publisher who relaunched the Croydon Guardian newspaper in 1998, and after a career in digital news returned to Croydon in 2010 to set up White Label Creative with her business partner Katharine Glass. Co-founder and director of the Develop Croydon Forum, Jo is also a Trustee of Start-Up Croydon, home to the borough’s Creative Digital Lab which uses of AI and virtual production tools to transform storytelling.