Cremé Project Podcast: Patrick Vernon

Shashi 3 years ago

CRÈME is an acronym – it stands for Communicating the Race Equality Message Effectively.
In each episode we will be interviewing a representative of one of the organisations fighting for racial equality in Britain. But this will not be just a dry discussion on policy – this is about the people behind the campaigning, and the experiences that shaped them.

Episode 2 trailer - Patrick Vernon by Cremé Project Podcast • A podcast on Anchor

My guest this week is social commentator and political activist Patrick Vernon OBE.
Patrick led a successful campaign for 22nd of June to be recognized annually as Windrush Day, a national day acknowledging the migrant contribution to UK society, which was officially backed by the British governmen…

Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.