About

Inaya Folarin Iman is a broadcast journalist who has worked as a feature writer and columnist for various national publications including the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and spiked. She is a panellist on the moral and ethical BBC Radio 4 programme Moral Maze and is a regular commentator across leading political and cultural radio and TV programmes.

She is the Founder and Director of The Equiano Project, a forum to promote freedom of speech and open dialogue on the subjects of race, identity and culture. She co-programmed and co-designed the historic Towards the Common Good: Rethinking Race in the 21st Century at the University of Cambridge in 2023. She has convened salons, conferences and seminars that grapple with many of the most important moral and technological questions of our time.

She is the Cultural Management and Youth Engagement Trustee for the National Portrait Gallery.

Inaya Folarin Iman is also an international speaker. She regularly speaks on panels and delivers talks in Britain and has spoken to audiences in Europe, America and the Middle East.

She was the creator and host of The Discussion, a weekly ideas, culture and politics TV show on GB News and has presented a wide range of news and politics TV shows.

She has also helped found and deliver numerous freedom of speech initiatives including Index on Censorship’s Free Speech Is For Me, the Free Speech Union and the Free Speech Champions project.