Politics
Grell joined the Labour Party in 1999 having been persuaded to do so by her friend and fellow student Chuka Umunna, an MP since 2010.
At the time she stood in the local election, she worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to the conciliation service Acas and as a trainee speech writer for Anna Diamantopoulou. Following her election to Waltham Forest council, she then went to work as a researcher for the former Deputy Mayor of London, Nicky Gavron. She served on the management committee of the think tank Compass from June 2005 until her resignation from the committee in December 2007. Grell was also a school governor.
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