Edeline Lee Women and Power Speaker Series
The Women & Power Speaker Series returned to Fenwick of Bond Street on October 6, where author and award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge sat down with Nancy Durrant for an illuminating conversation.
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a London-based, award-winning journalist. She has written for the New York Times, the Voice, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Stylist, Inside Housing, Dazed and Confused and the New Humanist. Her work earned her a place on Forbes’ European 30 Under 30 list in 2019. In 2020, she became the first Black British author since records began to top the overall Nielsen charts, and in 2021 she received a Nielsen Gold Bestseller Award for sales surpassing 500,000. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race (Bloomsbury, 2017) is her first book. It won the 2018 Jhalak Prize and the British Book Award for Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year, was chosen as Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize, and shortlisted for a Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction.
Nancy Durrant is the Culture Editor at the Evening Standard, a critic and broadcaster, presenting the weekly London culture programme Cultural Capital on YouTube and The 60 Second Film Review on Tiktok. As a commentator, she has appeared on The Today Programme, Channel 4 News, Sky Arts and elsewhere. Prior to the Standard, she was Arts Commissioning Editor at The Times and has contributed to several books, including James Capper: Ways to Make Mobile Sculpture and The Hedonist's Guide to Art, and for the last five years was a trustee of High Tide, a theatre organisation championing new writing in the East of England.
The event was hosted by designer Edeline Lee, best known for her immersive and performative shows at London Fashion Week. Designing for the future lady in mind.
The Women & Power Speaker Series began in 2019 and has welcomed Professor Dame Mary Beard to explore 'Feminism: Then and Now' with Financial Times HTSI Editor Jo Ellison. In addition to Dame Helena Morrissey and Clarissa Farr, on the topic of Beauty vs Brains.
