The Revd Sonia Hicks was born and brought up in South East London by parents who came from the Caribbean in the 1950s. Sonia trained at Queen’s College, Birmingham for three years and, after two appointments, was accepted as a Mission Partner and was stationed in the Jamaica District of the MCCA. Sonia served in the Thames Valley Circuit before taking up her appointment as Superintendent of the Wembley Circuit and was inducted as President of the Methodist Church in Britain in June 2021.