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Award-winning Dr. Jarrett-Macauley has spent a lifetime telling unique, unheard stories rooted in a historical context. She’s the pure definition pioneer.

Dr. Delia Jarrett-Macauley (DMS, Ph.D., FRSA is an internationally regarded academic, broadcaster and award-winning author with a career spanning over three decades.

An Orwell Prize winning writer (Moses, Citizen and Me, 2005), Delia has held fellowships at the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics and London’s Women’s Library. She’s also taken groundbreaking strides in academia being the first person to teach Black women’s studies courses at The University of Kent.

Her seminal book The Life of Una Marson (1998) is considered to be the blueprint from which many have discovered Una Marson’s extraordinary life. Her extensive knowledge, cultivated as Una’s official biographer, led to her being commissioned to devise and produce ‘The Una Marson Story’ for BBC Radio 3.

She has made several appearances on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, as well as programmes such as Open Book, Midweek and the Today programme. Delia voiced 'Warrior Marks', Alice Walker's documentary film on female genital mutilation.

Since the mid-1980s, Delia has also worked extensively in the cultural sector, including a period as Director of the Independent Theatre Council, and later as a consultant to Arts Council England. She also managed the pan-African dance summer school and co-ordinated educational projects for African Players. In the 1990s she was joint director of the National Theatre’s project, Transmission, which focused on arts and social change in Europe.

You can find out more at her official website deliajarrettmacauley.com

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