Laura Trevelyan is a journalist and advocate, who was an anchor and correspondent for BBC News. Trevelyan left BBC News in March 2023 after a thirty-year career, following her family’s historic trip to Grenada in February 2023 where she led the Trevelyans’ public apology to the Grenadian people for the role of their ancestors in enslaving Africans on the island.

Trevelyan is a cofounder of Heirs of Slavery, a group of British people whose ancestors profited from the enslavement of Africans in the Caribbean. Heirs of Slavery is encouraging other families with similar histories to acknowledge this fraught past, and calling on Britain’s government to engage in reparatory justice talks with Caribbean governments.

Trevelyan was an anchor and correspondent for the BBC’s U.S. Emmy award-winning newscast World News America, covering national and international stories from the studio in Washington, DC, and anchoring on location in the U.S. and from around the world. Trevelyan began her BBC career reporting from Northern Ireland on the Good Friday agreement. Trevelyan has reported on humanitarian and peacekeeping work in Haiti, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and on many U.S. elections. She was at the Trump HQ reporting live throughout election night 2016, and on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 2021. She is the author of two books, A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World and The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty.

Trevelyan earned a first class degree in politics from Bristol University and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the University of Wales College, Cardiff. Trevelyan lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and three children.

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