{"id":1332,"date":"2015-06-04T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2015-06-04T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T07:55:07","slug":"inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-for-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2015\/06\/04\/inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-for-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month &#8211; June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/06\/Floella.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1333\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/06\/Floella.png\" alt=\"Floella\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn 19 June it is World Sickle Cell Day and with that in mind we have chosen Floella Benjamin, a patron of the Sickle Cell Society, as our Inspirational Diversity Champion for this month.<\/p>\n<p>Floella is an actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. Although she is particularly known as a presenter of children&#8217;s programmes such as Play School and Play Away, Floella has also appeared in pantomimes and radio programmes, written and appeared in several educational, religious and entertainment videos and been a narrator with a number of national orchestras.<\/p>\n<p>Floella is also an author having written over 25 children&#8217;s books and written many articles for magazines including regular columns in &#8216;Parents&#8217; and &#8216;TV Times&#8217;. In 1987 Floella set up her own television production company and since then she has produced hundreds of programmes, primarily for children.<\/p>\n<p>Floella has sat on several boards and committees including, Ofcom Content Board, the Millennium Commission, the National Film &amp; Television School and BAFTA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 she was awarded the OBE &#8216;For Services to Broadcasting&#8217; and in 2006, she was appointed as Chancellor of the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2010 Floella became a life peer with the title Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham in the County of Kent<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Floella and her work see her website at http:\/\/www.floellabenjamin.com\/www.floellabenjamin.com or follow her on twitter at https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloellaBenjamin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June it is World Sickle Cell Day and with that in mind we have chosen Floella Benjamin, a patron of the Sickle Cell Society, as our Inspirational Diversity Champion for this month. Floella &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-ethnicity","category-gender","category-inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}