Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is a broadcaster, historian, and bestselling author.

Emma’s work often delves in to the complexities of identity, culture, and race through art, history, and current affairs. Her Channel 4 documentary Hair Power: Me and My Afro asks how hair became one of the most misunderstood, celebrated and debated aspects of the black experience. It won a Cannes Lion Silver award in the Entertainment Category.

She presented several series of Britain’s Lost Masterpieces for BBC4 and Back in Time for Brixton and The Sweet Makers for BBC2. She’s also taken part in lively debates on Unapologetic (C4) and the controversial Jimmy Carr Destroys Art (C4), Question Time (BBC1) and Have I Got News For You (BBC2).

Emma's latest book 'Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty', has been praised as “an incisive, radical essay offering empowering alternatives to the pressures of pervasive beauty standards”. In April 2021 Emma released ‘What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition’ which was an immediate Times and Sunday Times bestseller. WWPCDN is a clever deconstruction of the mainstream conversation around anti-racism. It followed on from her debut work ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ which was an Irish Times Bestseller. DTMH also inspired a national conversation about race and hair and has led to changing regulations in schools and in the British army.

Emma is available for keynotes, panel discussions and speaks powerfully about topics such as diversity, history, arts, culture and much more.

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