Kathy Caton, a Brighton-based radio presenter and producer has been nominated in the Positive Role Model category at the 2014 National Diversity Awards.
Kathy present’s Brighton’s only LGBTQ radio show, Out in Brighton on RadioReverb 97.2fm where she champions LGBTQ artists and musicians. She is a big supporter of Brighton’s burgeoning community and voluntary sector, helping get stories and contributors on air that tend not to be heard on other broadcast media.
Over the three years the show has been on air it has become the number one LGBTQ show on international podcast directory Podomatic with listeners from around the world tuning in to get a genuine snapshot of LGBT life in Brighton.
Kathy helps run the BBC’s LGBT staff network BBC Pride and also works behind the scenes with the BBC’s Diversity Centre in their work on improving on-screen portrayal and engaging with LGBT audiences. She is currently working with Brighton’s Trans community on the Brighton Trans*formed oral history project with QueenSpark Books.
She said: “I am absolutely honoured (and quite embarrassed!) to have been nominated for the National Diversity Awards and feel pretty humbled to be up there in such great company in the Positive Role Model category. I’m delighted too that these Awards recognise grass-roots work and activism – it’s an honour to be nominated!”
Paul Sesay, Chief Executive of The National Diversity Awards, said: “It is an honour to witness the extraordinary journeys of Britain’s unsung diversity heroes, and we will continue to recognise their extraordinary achievements during 2014”.
Nominations are open now and close on July 18th.
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