Marvyn
Harrison

Founder

Dope Black Dads

UK Black Business Awards Influencer of the year

Marvyn Harrison is a business and community leader, broadcaster and author. The founder and driving force behind Dope Black CIC, an educational and community-led platform designed to improve the outcomes of Black people, has seen him become a positive voice on behalf of Black people across the UK, US, and the African continent.

Marvyn has become an award-winning podcaster with the 2020 Screen Nation Award for Favo
urite Podcast and a Webby for Best Podcast: Family and Children. He has since developed his skill as a broadcaster by featuring regularly as a contributor on BBC 5Live, Good Morning Britain, The Jeremy Vine Show, The Kick Off and Sunday Morning Live. More recently Marvyn has been named by Forbes as “One of 25 Black voices to follow” and UK Black Business Show and HSBC’s Top 25 Black Entrepreneurs, he has been named as a BBC 1xtra Future Figure and UK Black Business Awards Influencer of the year award in association with Meta and was named Campaigner of the Year at The Pros Awards 2024 supported by Google.

Marvyn is also a proud and dedicated father of two which serves as one of the most important titles of all.