Emma Dabiri is a broadcaster, author, and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next, and Disobedient Bodies -Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty ,and Her Channel 4 documentary Hair Power: Me and My Afro won a Cannes Lion Silver award in the Entertainment Category.

A regular voice in print and broadcast, Emma is Contributing Beauty Editor at ELLE UK and a columnist at The Guardian. She has presented acclaimed TV and radio series including Journeys into Afrofuturism, BBC’s Back in Time, and Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, exploring history, the arts, and cultural narratives with depth and accessibility.

Alongside her media work, Emma spent over a decade teaching in the Department of Africa at SOAS, University of London, and in 2022 was appointed Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and has worked as a curator, most recently on the Wellcome Collection 2023 - 2024 exhibition The Cult of Beauty. She is a trustee at the Hugh Lane Gallery of Contemporary Art in Dublin Ireland.

Her interdisciplinary career reflects a commitment to reframing stories of race, culture, art, beauty and belonging, making her one of the most distinctive and influential voices today.