Award-winning presenter and journalist Colleen has interviewed some of the biggest names in showbiz and sport for the BBC and industry magazine Music Week, including Lenny Kravitz, Paloma Faith, John Boyega, Letitia Wright, Rio Ferdinand, Thierry Henry, Henry Winkler, and legendary guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.
After a previous career as a MOBO award-winning singer, Colleen joined the BBC as a qualified journalist where she presented more than 40 films for BBC current affairs programme Inside Out, and a four-part culture magazine show called Global Pulse for BBC World TV News. As a producer on the BBC's flagship Six and Ten o'clock News, she worked on some of the biggest stories of our times including the Tunisia and Nice terror attacks, and Covid-19 pandemic. Alongside this, she carved out an informal on-air arts correspondent role reporting to a combined 10 million viewers a day. Colleen occasionally presented The Cultural Frontline for BBC World Service and was a regular presenter of the Live 8pm News Bulletin (before Eastenders).
In a return to roots, Colleen decided to get reignite her passion for music by learning to play guitar, enrolling in the Berklee College of Music Online programme. She is now working on launching a guitar podcast in April 2025!
Off-air, Colleen is an Assistant Editor at Powerful Media Ltd, the publishing house of the annual Powerlist (Britain's Most Influential People of African, Caribbean, and African American Heritage) in partnership with J.P. Morgan; and Future Leaders (150 of the UK's Most Outstanding African and African Caribbean Students and Graduates) in partnership with Latham & Watkins.