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Hall of Fame Sir David Baroness Blackman
Malorie
Doreen
Adjaye
Lawrence
Architect Author
Labour Peer,
Justice campaigner
Ghanaian-British architect Following the racially Malorie’s best-selling
Sir David is one of the most motivated murder of her son children’s books have made
internationally respected Stephen more than 20 years her popular within schools
figures in his field and has ago, Baroness Lawrence has and among children across
been named the world’s most campaigned tirelessly for the country for many years.
influential architect by Time police reform and justice. Her career spans almost
magazine. Her work has resulted in laws three decades. She published
He is the founder of Adjaye being changed, an overhaul her first book Not So Stupid,
Associates, and has more than of police methods and a shift a collection of horror and
100 people working for him in public attitudes. She set science fiction stories for
across six practices around up the Stephen Lawrence young adults, in 1990.
the world. He recently opened Charitable Trust to promote a She has since gone on to
an office in Ghana, where he positive community legacy in write more than 60 children’s
is designing a new National her son’s name. books, novels, short stories,
Cathedral. He was behind Her campaigning work has as well as hit TV and theatre
the critically acclaimed led her to being selected on scripts, including episodes
£350million redesign of the panels within the Home Office of Byker Grove. Proving a hit
Smithsonian National Museum and the police service. Other beyond UK shores, her work
of African American History notable roles include sitting has been translated into more
and Culture in Washington, on the board and council than 60 languages, including
DC. David describes the of leading human rights Spanish, German, Chinese and
career-defining project, just organisation Liberty, and as a Japanese.
10 minutes away from the patron of hate crime charity, She was the Children’s
White House, as a “monument Stop Hate UK. Laureate between 2013 and
to understanding the African She was awarded an OBE 2016, and used her position
American experience”. Other for services to community to speak out against the
major commissions include relations in 2003, and was closure of local libraries. She
the National Holocaust made a Labour life peer said that as her ultimate task
Memorial in London and his in 2013. was to promote children’s
first New York skyscraper. reading, it fell on her to speak
Over the past 12 months, Other awards include a out against anything that
he was awarded the AJ100 Lifetime Achievement Award threatened this.
Contribution to the Profession at the Pride of Britain Awards
award and the Australian Good and being named as Britain’s A winner of nearly 20
Design Gold Award, among most influential woman in the awards, she received an OBE
others. In October 2018, he was BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour in 2008. Her debut book
set to be on the judging panel Power List 2014. Noughts & Crosses reached
for the RIBA Stirling Prize, one In 2016, De Montford No 61 on the Big Read list, a
of the most prestigious awards University in Leicester 2003 BBC survey that listed
in the industry. appointed her as Chancellor. the nation’s best-loved book.
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