Kuba Shand-Baptiste has been named as the first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah award for an up-and-coming journalist from a BAME background. The author has written essays for Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next? (4th Estate 2020), featured in British Vogue and gal-dem’s “I Will Not Be Erased”: Our Stories about Growing up as People of Colour. Kuba Shand-Baptiste works as Assistant Opinion editor at the i newspaper. You can find her tweeting at: https://twitter.com/kubared