Jocelyn Barrow

Dame
Jocelyn Barrow
DBE
Born
Jocelyn Anita Barrow

(1929-04-15)15 April 1929
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Died9 April 2020(2020-04-09) (aged 90)
London, England
Alma materInstitute of Education, University of London
Occupation(s)Educator, community activist, politician
Known forGeneral Secretary of Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD)
First black woman to serve on the BBC Board of Governors
SpouseHenderson Downer (m. 1970)[1]

Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE (15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020)[2] was a British educator, community activist and politician, who was the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference IWWW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Tributes pour in to Dame Jocelyn Barrow, a ‘true champion of racial equality’", The Voice, 11 April 2020.