An award-winning businesswoman, including British bookseller of the year 2023 & 2025 Brighton Business  2024 & 2025.
Entrepreneur, speaker and event manager, Carolynn Bain has taken Brighton by storm. Her passion to see diversity in a city she loves dearly, and to change the narrative for many black and brown children, led her to create the award-winning bookshop Afrori Books in 2020, a store that specialises in books by black authors. Carolynn has featured as a pioneer on news channels like Sky, ITV, and the BBC, as well as creating Brighton’s first Anti-Racist Kids Club (ARK), which she delivers to schools across Sussex.