Alveena is a Principal Associate with iCoCo (Institute of Community Cohesion) with lead responsibility on Education and Cohesion policy. She also supports a number of delivery projects to improve community cohesion at the local level.
In 2000 Alveena joined the Commission for Racial Equality where she developed national policy on race and regeneration. After the 2001 disturbances in the north of England, Alveena held the portfolio for community cohesion and regeneration. She sat on the LGA Community Cohesion steering group which produced the Community Cohesion guidance (2000) and the Community Cohesion Practitioner's Toolkit (2004).
In 2005 Alveena became CRE Head of Communities and Integration Policy and was responsible for promulgating new thinking around the integration agenda and mainstreaming this into Whitehall policy making . She led the development of CRE policy on issues of migration, segregation, extremism, interfaith dialogue and conflict resolution and mediation.
As Deputy Convenor of the Government's Preventing Extremism Together (PET) Task Group in 2005, she presented a number of proposals to the Home Secretary to consider in tackling deprivation, disaffection and disengagement amongst Muslim communities in Britain. In 2007 she was appointed as Muslim advisor to the film Brick Lane and also as advisor to the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Select Committee on Migration and Cohesion. In 2008 Alveena joined the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for six months as policy advisor to the chair, Trevor Phillips.
