What defines you? – Akil Hunte
From piano lessons as a kid, to being one of only two Black men among 110 aspiring lawyers, to an invitation to Number 10, Akil has collected plenty of what the world calls success.
Then life asked a bigger question. Witnessing the Grenfell Tower fire from his bedroom window at 19, and later losing a colleague he never got to meet, made him rethink what any of it was for.
This is an honest, generous talk about the labels we carry and the freedom of letting some of them go. It’s for anyone still working out who they’re becoming.
“Those things may define you now, but it’s up to you whether they’ll define you for the future.”
