TWO HOMERTONIANS, Principal Lord Simon Woolley, and David Ziyambi, a Homerton alum and Chair of the Cambridge Black Alumni Network Advisory Group, were both inducted into Moorhouse College, Atlanta.
They both were awarded the honour, named after Moorhouse graduate Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.
Lord Woolley and David Ziyambi attended a ceremony at the prestigious Black college, established in 1867 after the emancipation of enslaved Africans.
Lord Woolley said: "In the last few years I’ve been extremely lucky to be awarded accolades for 30 years of fighting for social and racial justice, but to receive an honour in the name of my greatest hero, Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. is difficult to surpass.
"As a disciple of Martin Luther King, I hope he’s looking down and saying, ‘thank you for continuing my work, God's work!"
David Ziyambi added: “When I took the decision 20 years ago to become the first Black lawyer in Homerton’s history, I knew there would be many obstacles and certainly some complexity, but none that I thought were insurmountable with the right level of focus and dedication.
"Not much about my path was straightforward, but I completed it nonetheless. I couldn’t have known then that I would spend the next 20 years of my life sharing my experiences with and mentoring hundreds of young lawyers in the UK, the US, and across Africa and helping them to pursue and/or navigate careers in this legal profession that underpins our way of life, whether through commercial enterprise or the basic tenets of our global justice systems.
"To receive this recognition from Morehouse College for my work in increasing access to the legal profession, particularly for young black lawyers, was especially humbling; doing it together with my friend Lord Simon Woolley, the first Black Principal of Homerton College, made it invaluable.”
