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A compilation of poems about racism in the workplace, including winning entries from the first Black in White Poetry Competition Poems by Charlotte Shyllon + 32 contributing poets
Sharing Stories, Shaping Societies
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Black in White Community Collection
A compilation of poems about racism in the workplace, including winning entries from the first Black in White Poetry Competition Poems by Charlotte Shyllon + 32 contributing poets
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Foreword by Anna Kyprianou, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Middlesex University.
Charlotte Shyllon is the Founder & Director of Transforming Words, a communications and equality, diversity and inclusion consultancy. Raised a diplomat’s daughter, she lived in a ‘privilege bubble’, not knowingly impacted by racism until she entered the world of work. A former pharmacist and award-winning journalist, she has worked in the charity and corporate sectors for over 25 years. Over the years, she encountered occasional incidents of racism and unconscious bias, and just accepted these as something that came with the territory.
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, she wrote and published her first book of poems called Black in White about some of these experiences. Inspired to continue to air stories about workplace racism, in 2021, she launched a poetry competition to elicit poems about other people’s experiences. Black in White – Community Collection was borne out of that. It showcases 28 of the best entries, as well as some guests’ poems and several new poems written by Charlotte.
Charlotte is British and of Sierra Leonean parentage. She is a proud mum of two teenagers.
Author Charlotte Shyllon
Charlotte is a senior business professional with nearly three decades’ experience working primarily in communications and business development. Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, she wrote her first book of poems, Black in White, to share some of her experiences of racism in the corporate world. She then ran a poetry competition for four years to elicit other people’s stories about workplace and childhood racism.
In 2024, she set up The Transforming Words Foundation to expand this work and now uses her diversity and inclusion expertise to bring insight and illumination to these important issues. Charlotte is a British Sierra Leonean and is mum to two adult children.
