Yesterday the Guardian’s G2 section did a fashion profile of Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey. Unlike more high profile ethnic minority peers such as Lord Ahmed and Baroness Amos, Baroness Young is one of many ethnic minority peers we hear little about.

Young was an actress during the 1970s and 1980s and went on to become Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University in the mid 1990s. She was head of culture at the Greater London Authority from 2000 to 2004, the year she became a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. She sits on the Boards of the South Bank Centre and the Royal National Theatre amongst other appointments.

Over the Christmas period TMP will be profiling our unsung ethnic minority peers.