Thandi Lubimbi is a barrister who has spent most of her working life in government.
She has been practising criminal law since 2005, and in that time she has worked as a Senior Intelligence Officer for a law enforcement agency and prosecuted regulatory and general crime. Lubimbi is also an award-winning screenwriter.
After attending a screenwriting course at the Met Film School in 2014, she began to write scripts regularly. At the 2022 New York Festival, her co-written legal drama, Barred, won Best Digital Drama and The Effect, an Audible sci-fi series on which she was a contributing writer, won Best Podcast.
Thandi Is Appearing In These Sessions
Entertaining Racism: How Racism is Perpetuated and Diversity Weaponised with Thandi Lubimbi
Herringham Hall
Understanding and addressing racism is key to ensuring real representation and to writing authentic and diverse characters.
