Dr Martin Glynn is a criminologist, dramatist, screenwriter, children’s author, and data storyteller with more than 40 years’ experience working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings. He is currently a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University.
He has written and directed performance works, as well as written radio and theatre plays. He has also been an Arts Development Consultant and founded BLAK (UK) (Being Liberated and Knowledgeable), an organisation encouraging the arts as a tool for personal transformation. In 2018, Glynn co-authored Revealed, a play exploring anger within a family spanning three generations of Black men.
When asked about racism and his perspective on activism, Martin says:
“A woman called Michelle Alexander says in her book The New Jim Crow that racism has been merely redesigned. And so, I’m at the point now, with my age, that it’s about passing on what I know for the next generation, who can decode it and do it their way.”
