Chief Petty Officer Janine Potts, Deputy Race and Ethnicity Inclusion Advocate Royal Navy

“The Navy? What is that?!” Few Royal Navy sailors started their careers with that question, but then most Royal Navy sailors didn’t grow up in land-locked Zimbabwe.Janine arrived in England aged 19, having been invited by her aunt when Janine felt she needed to leave Zimbabwe due to the political unrest of the 1990s, “So I left, came to London and it was exciting. I’d never left Africa before. It was a cultural shock and London was just buzzing.” Next, Janine needed to figure out, “How do I s...