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Hall of Fame Sir David Baroness Blackman

Malorie
Doreen
Adjaye
Lawrence

Architect Best-selling
Author
Labour Peer,
Justice campaigner

Ghanaian-British architect David Following the racially motivated Malorie’s bestselling children’s
is one of the most internationally murder of her son Stephen more books have made her popular
respected figures in his field than 20 years ago, Baroness within schools and amongst
and has been named as the Doreen Lawrence has been children across the country for
most influential architect Time campaigning tirelessly for police many years.
magazine. reform and justice. Her career spans almost three
He is the founder of Adjaye Her work has resulted in laws decades. She published her first
Associates, and has over 100 being changed, an overhaul of book Not So Stupid, a collection
people working for him across police methods and a shift in of horror and science fiction
six practices around the world. public attitudes. stories for young adults, back in
He recently opened an office in She set up the Stephen 1990.
Ghana, where he is designing a Lawrence Charitable Trust to She has since gone onto write
new National Cathedral. promote a positive community more than 60 children’s books,
He was behind the £350 million legacy in her son’s name. novels, short stories, as well as
redesign of the Smithsonian Her campaigning work has led a number of hit TV and theatre
National African American her to be selected on panels scripts, including episodes of the
Museum of History and Culture in within the Home Office and the smash-hit TV series Byker Grove.
Washington, DC. David describes police service. Proving a hit beyond UK shores,
the career-defining project, Other notable roles include her work has been translated
which is just 10 minutes away sitting on the board and into more than 60 languages,
from the White House, which council of leading human rights including Spanish, German,
includes exhibitions of shackles organisation Liberty, and as a Chinese and Japanese.
and KKK robes, as a ‘monument patron of hate crime charity, Stop She was the Children’s Laureate
to understanding the African Hate UK. between 2013 - 2016, and used
American experience’. her position to speak out against
A winner of a number of awards
Other major commissions the closure of local libraries. She
include the National Holocaust and recognitions, she was said that as her ultimate task is
appointed OBE for ‘services to
Memorial in London and his first community relations’ in 2003, to promote children’s reading, it
New York skyscraper. and was made a Labour Life Peer falls on her to speak out against
He has received a number of in 2013. anything that threatens this.
recognitions for his work. Over the A winner of nearly 20 awards,
past 12 months, he was awarded Others include a Lifetime she was appointed Officer of
the AJ100 Contribution to the Achievement Award at the the Order of the British Empire
Profession award and the National Pride of Britain Awards and she (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday
Museum of African American was named as Britain’s most Honours.
History and Culture took home the influential woman in the BBC Her debut book Noughts &
Australian Good Design Award Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour Power Crosses reached number 61 on
Gold Winner in the Architectural List 2014. the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC
Design category, among others. In 2016 De Montford University survey that lists the nation’s
in Leicester appointed her as
He was set to be on the best-loved book.
judging panel for the 2018 RIBA Chancellor. In the same year she She recently tweeted that she
Stirling Prize shortlist, one of the was awarded an Honorary Doctor would be withdrawing from
most prestigious awards in the of Letters from the University of public life for personal reasons.
architectural industry, in October. Westminster.

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