Patrick Vernon OBE is a film-maker and cultural historian, and founder of both Every Generation Media and the 100 Great Black Britons campaign. He is also editor of Black History Month magazine and the 70th Windrush Commemorative magazine for Sugar Media Marketing. Patrick was for many years a councillor for the London Borough of Hackney and he remains active in the fields of public health and diversity. Patrick was a Clore Leadership Fellow intern at the IWM in 2007 and later contributed to its AHRC-supported project Whose Remembrance? Patrick is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Society's Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group. Patrick is a Winston Churchill Fellow where he is exploring the relationship between heritage and mental wellbeing. Finally, Patrick has been a leading campaigner for a national Windrush Day on the 22nd of June for celebrating the contribution of the Windrush Generation and all migrants to Britain since WW2.
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