22 Facts About Delia Jarrett-Macauley

Delia Jarrett-Macauley, known as Dee Jarrett-Macauley, is a London-based British writer, academic and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has devised and presented features on BBC Radio, as well as being a participant in a range of programmes.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley is a business and arts consultant, specialising in organisation development.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley was born in Hertfordshire, England, to Sierra Leone Creole parents, their youngest daughter, and she visited Sierra Leone as a child.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley managed the pan-African dance summer school and co-ordinated educational projects for African Players.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has judged prizes, served on the boards and been closely involved with a number of other cultural and literary initiatives, among them the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2007 as well as in 2016, when she was chair of the judging panel.

In July 2016 Delia Jarrett-Macauley was appointed chair of the Caine Prize board of trustees, stepping down in April 2019, when her successor was named as Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley's university teaching career began in 1989, when she ran the first black women's studies courses on the MA in women's studies at the University of Kent.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley devised and led the arts management programme at Birkbeck College, London.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has been a visiting fellow in gender studies at the London School of Economics and has taught a range of courses at the Universities of Kent, London and Middlesex.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has trained teachers at Goldsmiths College, London, and has contributed to many professional development courses in Europe at a range of institutions, including the Amsterdam Summer University and the King Baudouin Foundation and the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has contributed to a number of academic publications as author and board member, including Feminist Review, Women's History Review, Journal of Gender Studies, and Gender and History.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

In October 2018 it was announced that Delia Jarrett-Macauley was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has edited Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard in Contemporary Britain, with contributors who include Eldred Durosimi Jones, Jatinder Verma, Naseem Khan, Dawn Monique Williams, Michael Pearce, Lynette Goddard, Varsha Panjwani, Jami Rogers, Michael McMillan, Iqbal Khan, Diane Allison-Mitchell, Pat Cumper, Sita Thomas, and Terri Power.

In 2016 Delia Jarrett-Macauley was on the London Book Fair delegation to China, where she spoke at The Shanghai International Book Fair and at various events in Beijing, including the Beijing Book Fair's Cultural Industries Forum.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley was filmed for the British Council's "Walking the cities" series in Rome.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley is the author of a well received biography of the BBC's first black programme-maker, Una Marson.

Chris Searle, reviewing it in Tribune wrote: "Delia Jarrett-Macauley is to be congratulated in creating this finely written, detailed, narrative which opens up black life from an era often untouched by the written word".

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has worked on a number of broadcasting projects for BBC Radio, including devising and presenting The Una Marson Story and Black Women Writers in 1930s England on BBC Radio 4.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley has contributed to other BBC programmes such as Woman's Hour and Open Book on Radio 4, the Radio 3 website on Ideas and Culture and the 2004 BBC Music Live Festival.

Delia Jarrett-Macauley voiced Warrior Marks, Alice Walker's documentary film, which was shown on UK television.