Charlotte Shyllon
Charlotte is the Founder and CEO of TTWF, established in 2024 from Black in White (BiW), which ran this Poetry Competition for four years. She is a poet and lead author of six BiW anthologies. In 2023, her poem ‘What if diseases didn’t destroy destinies?’ was one of 30 chosen for the People’s Poem by Jaspreet Kaur and displayed at Battersea Arts Centre. A former pharmacist and journalist, she spent over 25 years as a senior communications and marketing leader. She holds a CMI Level 7 qualification in strategic approaches to equality, diversity and inclusion and judges the DEI category of an annual industry awards. She is now CEO of a global contract research organisation.
Rianna Scipio
Rianna is the founder of QUOTABLE™, a methodology for excavating and articulating the governing principles beneath a leader’s life’s work. One of Britain’s first Black women to anchor primetime UK current affairs, she spent more than a decade as a journalist with the BBC before building a body of work at the intersection of language, power and belonging. She is an international keynote speaker who has addressed presidential-level gatherings and high-level global forums. Her intellectual framework examines what happens to original thinking inside powerful systems — and why the sentence that carries it is so often the first thing lost.
Femi Williams
Femi Fem emerged from London’s 1980s underground scene, co-founding the Family Funktion and Shake & Fingerpop parties that helped spark rare groove and acid jazz. In 1990, he co-founded Young Disciples; the Mercury-nominated album Road to Freedom and hit ‘Apparently Nothin’ became defining classics. Femi has produced and remixed for artists including Mary J. Blige, Beyoncé, Des’ree and Justin Timberlake. A sought-after DJ, he has played for global icons and major fashion houses. He records with Eye of the High and hosts his Mi-Soul radio show on Sundays at 9-11pm, and his monthly Celebrating You event at the Standard Hotel, King’s Cross.
Dr Doirean Wilson BEM
Doirean is an Associate Professor in Sustainability Management at the University of East London, Director of the Academy of Policing & Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Noon Centre. A leading scholar in sustainability, diversity, and policing reform, she has shaped national training through her Culturally Inclusive Toolkit and unconscious-bias resources used across London’s police services. She serves on the Police Race Action Plan Advisory Stakeholder Board and the Met’s Stop and Search Charter Advisory Board. Ranked 7th in the 2024 HR Most Influential Thinkers, she has received awards, including the British Empire Medal for services to equality & diversity.
Marcia La-Rose
Marcia joined Four in 2003 as the Finance Manager, and is now the Group People & Diversity Director, leading a 250-strong workforce across UK and MENA, embedding diversity, equity and inclusion into core business strategy. This includes strengthening employee relations, governance and legal compliance across the PR industry, and resulted in her being awarded a fellowship of the PRCA. Marcia is a trustee of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, Chair of the PRCA HR Board and an EU Immigration advisor to the Home Office. She is involved in community work with schools and mentors young people and others who focus on the socio-economic uplift of young people.