When she took over the reins at Small Green Shoots a year ago, Makeda McMillan replaced founder Natalie Wade, who brought her into the organisation as a teenage student. Now set on leading the youth-focused charity into a new era, the managing director sits down with Music Week to tell her story and discuss career pathways, discrimination and the need to hold the music industry to account...

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Fifteen years ago, Makeda McMillan was ...