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THE LEGACY GALA Zita Holbourne

CUSTODIANS: David Weaver

Legacy
Peter Herbert OBE
Zita Holbourne is an award-winning trade union
David Weaver is a specialist in corporate
and community activist, human rights campaigner,
mediation, leadership training across all sectors,
visual artist, designer, art curator, poet, spoken
Marlow Morris word artist, author and writer. Zita has been an recruitment, and organisational policy. Whilst
David has a passion for working with large
activist and campaigner for decades as a member
organisations to resolve complex challenges, Peter Herbert OBE is a leading human rights
of the Labour Party. She is the Co-founder &
his real passion remains in the social justice barrister, who is Chair of the Society of Black
National Chair of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts
related work that he drives through leading Lawyers (SBL) and has been at the forefront
(BARAC) UK. She is one of the UK’s most senior
Marlow Morris is a commercial animal with black trade union representatives, is National Vice organisations like Operation Black Vote and of many legal campaigns for justice in both

an interest in all things relating to business President of the Public & Commercial Services the British Association for Counselling and the United Kingdom and internationally. Peter
providing a quality service He also has Union and chairs the union’s National Equality Psychotherapy. developed the Race for Justice Campaign
a passion for social justice and tithing Committee, International Committee and Women’s that invited the late Johnnie Cochran to the
through the coaching support he offers Committee. Zita writes for a range of publications, UK in 1995, followed a few years later by the
young men navigating their way through which include The Guardian, The Morning Star and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General to hold
the similar hardships he experienced as a The Voice newspapers. Zita has co-founded and the first US/UK Hate Crime Conference in
young man. In a previous life he provided led numerous anti-racist, equality, anti-austerity and Simon Woolley 1998. Internationally in recent years Peter has
mental health related support to young justice initiatives over many years. appeared as lead Counsel in two cases in
people through Youth Offending Services the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
(ICTR), and led refugee missions of the SBL
in London. Now, as the founder of A Few
and Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML) to
Good Men, he delivers services in the
Gala
hospitality industries, coaches others new Simon Woolley is the director and one of Sicily, Rome, Calais and Lebanon. This year,
to business, as well as young people as the founders of Operation Black Vote (OBV). he helped found the BMELawyers4Grenfell to
Lee Jasper organise a strategic response to the inaction
part of his legacy plan. Operation Black Vote (OBV) is a non-partisan
and not-for-profit national organisation that was of the Government and to hold the public
established in 1996 to address the British black inquiry to account. In 2002, he was awarded
and ethnic minority democratic deficit. Focusing the prestigious “Spirit of Excellence” award

Lee Jasper delivers high-level, strategic analysis and on voter registration, lobbying politicians and for his international human rights work by the
environmental scanning in the public and private mentoring schemes, OBV aims to inspire black American Bar Association.
sector, in relation to political and socioeconomic and minority ethnic communities to engage
trends globally; this may extend to the creation with public institutions to address the race
of policy solutions, which is his area of expertise. inequalities in areas including education, health
As a Leadership Mentoring Programme, Master and employment.
Practitioner (LMP) (©). He delivers the most
challenging leadership and capacity building
services in existence. Mr Jasper is regularly invited to

comment in the mainstream press, and his blog page
is followed by tens of thousands globally.