Afua Hirsch is a writer, author, TV presenter and documentary maker. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, and worked as a barrister before becoming legal affairs correspondent, and later the West Africa correspondent, at the Guardian . In 2014 she joined Sky News as the Social Affairs editor, a role I held until 2017. She has presented a range of television and radio documentaries, including Britain's Bloody Heroes , African Art , Enslaved and The White House , and a regular contributor current affairs programmes including The Pledge , Channel 4 News, BBC2 Newsnight, BBC1 Question Time, and CNN. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging , winner of the RSL Jerwood Prize and a Sunday Times bestseller, and Equal To Everything , a children's book which tells the story of Lady Brenda Hale. She regularly writes for publications including Time Magazine , Vogue , The Sunday Times and the Observe r. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.