Jendella Benson

Jendella is Head of Editorial at Black Ballad - the award-winning digital platform for Black British women - and has previously been a columnist for Media Diversified, MTV UK, and Christian Today. She has written for Metro /i>Online and Independent Voices, as well as had her visual work featured in The Guardian, The Metro, The Voice Newspaper, and on London Live.

Her short story, KINDLING, was published in The Book of Birmingham and her visual work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, most notably at the House of Commons, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, and at the International Center of Photography in New York as part of ICP Projected in May 2018.

Finally, Jendella is a TEDx speaker who has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour, as well as speaking at various universities and conferences.