Welcoming new Trustees to the SHF

We are delighted to announce new Trustees joining the Stuart Hall Foundation. The Foundation recently welcomed Martha Awojobi to the Board of Trustees. Previous Associates Aasiya Lodhi and Sarah Kavanagh also recently stepped into the role of Trustee at the Foundation, further supporting the development of our public programme and our Peer Network of scholars, fellows and artists.

(Left to right) Sarah Kavanagh, Martha Awojobi, Aasiya Lodhi

Sarah Kavanagh

Sarah Kavanagh works for Bar Council as Head of Media and Communications and previously ran the Campaigns and Communications Department for the NUJ in the UK and Ireland. Sarah is a sociology graduate, studying her BA at Goldsmiths and MA at Ruskin College. In 2021 she authored a chapter of a book published by Routledge, entitled: Investigative Journalism (third edition), it explains her campaigning work on journalistic ethics and sets out some of the legal threats to investigative journalism in the UK.

Martha Awojobi

Martha Awojobi is CEO of JMB and curator of Uncharitable (formerly #BAMEOnline). They support the charity sector to move beyond tokenistic and performative diversity gestures and grapple with the legacy of racism, imperialism and colonialism that is the heart of the sector. Martha works with organisations to understand racism, reflect on their relationship to white supremacy and work towards an anti-racist vision for a liberated future.

Aasiya Lodhi

Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Westminster. Her research is focused on empire and twentieth-century British history. She led an AHRC-funded project on gender, race, and visibility tied to the BBC’s centenary, and she is currently writing a book on BBC Radio, racial liberalism, and the politics of voice in post-war Britain. Aasiya is a former BBC radio producer and journalist.

Read more about our group of Trustees and Associates.