Surviving slavery

Dawn is a psychotherapist and writer who is best known for her activism around Black women and mental health. Psychoanalytically trained, with a clinical expertise in trauma, she has a special interest in race, culture, and spirituality and the complex role that they play in maintaining mental health. Dawn uses theory and storytelling to help her clients make better sense of their lives and the world. Much of her work is based on democratising self-care and the importance of understanding cultural nuance and intersectional identities when navigating wellness. Dawn has recently co-authored Black Women Trauma and Therapy; her chapter "Sharing Breath" is an insight into the importance of the personal narrative in Black Womens Healing.

Patrick is Chair of Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB and Independent, Chair of Walsall Together Health Partnership Board and Honorary Professor for Community leadership and heritage at Wolverhampton University. He was recently appointed Pro Chancellor at Wolverhampton University. Patrick is a sought-after broadcaster, public speaker, EDI adviser and writes blogs and articles for the national and international media on healthcare, cultural heritage and race.

Patrick led the campaign for a national Windrush Day since 2013 and helping to expose the Windrush Scandal in 2018 in one of the first growing online petitions calling for an amnesty for the Windrush Generation. In 2020 Patrick was selected by British Vogue as of Britain’s top twenty campaigners and since he has been included in the Powerlist list of 100 influential Black People in Britain. In 2020 Patrick co-authored 100 Great Black Britons based on his campaign. In 2024 he his latest coauthored book on Black Grief and healing. Patrick is a member of Church Commissioners oversight group on reparations.

Angela Haynes has taught in SOAS Department of Development Studies since 2018. She currently teaches on the online Humanitarian MSc programme and is a Senior Teaching Fellow on Migration, as well as a coordinator of SOAS's Ebony Initiative Writing and Presentation Space for Black scholars. She teaches 'Afropean: African Diaspora Studies in Europe and Black London' courses for Syracuse University's London Programme.