Lape Olarinoye is a British Nigerian broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, and Senior Lecturer in TV Production and Broadcast Journalism at the University of East London. Born and raised in Newham, she has over a decade of on-screen experience with BBC, CNN , including the CNN Freedom Project , Sky News, TRT World, and Arise News, producing documentaries on child domestic labour, mental health, race relations, and the UK migration crisis. A doctoral candidate and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), she writes on housing, immigration, media representation, and the politics of race and class in Britain.