Kirsteen Tait has been advising the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on its Young Undocumented Migrants programme, she set up the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) at Kings College London in 2001 and has worked on a number of refugee projects.

She is currently a trustee of the Hera Trust and chair of Most Mira (Peace Bridge), which provides arts based opportunities jointly for Serb and Bosnian children in post conflict Prijedor in NW Bosnia.

Kirsteen worked with Michael Young during the development phase of Open School, on the establishment of the National Association for the Education of Sick Children, of which she was founder director, and as a consultant for the School of Social Entrepreneurs during its second year.

During her career she has set up a number of social welfare projects and been employed as a civil servant, and as an educational, historical and market researcher. She is now both a Trustee and a Fellow of the Young Foundation.