Lorna Holder

Born in Jamaica but raised in Nottingham (UK), Lorna has more than 35 years of experience at the executive level in the fashion and retail industries, cultural events, and the visual and performing arts.

She graduated in 1975 from Nottingham Trent University with a BA Honours in Fashion and Textiles. She went on to work in the Middle East, New York, and London in fashion and retail. She worked as a designer for the Birmingham-based design company, House of Lerose, and was Head of Fashion during the 1970s and 1980s for Davies & Fields, one of Britain's largest dress manufacturing companies.

Lorna was the Executive Producer for the first Black Film and Television Awards held in 2002 at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. She has delivered six Heritage Lottery Fund productions, based on research and oral histories of Caribbean people and other communities in Britain, and has also collaborated with the V&A, British Museum, Rich Mix, BFI, Theatre Royal Nottingham, and London Metropolitan Archives.