Founder of Born in Me Productions, an independent production company focusing on scripted and non-scripted television, movies and podcasting, Hirsch is known for her work on black culture, history, identity and culture in the African diaspora and worldwide. Hirsch has been senior correspondent at the Guardian Newspaper and Sky News and has presented documentaries including African Renaissance; a three-part documentary series for the BBC on African art, Enslaved; a six part series for Epix about the history of the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson, and podcast series; We Need to Talk about the British Empire, for Audible. Hirsch is also the author of 'Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging' - winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize - and the bestselling children’s book 'Equal to Everything'. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Hirsch has been a Festival contributor since 2020 when she had a lively and frank discussion on working in television in UK and US, dealing with online trolling and ‘radical inclusivity’ with actor, podcast host and broadcaster, Jameela Jamil for the prestigious Alternative MacTaggart interview. She now returns as the Advisory Chair, and will be looking at themes around how those in the TV industry are in a unique position as storytellers who not only reflect change in the world, but also have the power to shape it.