Lawayne Childrey

About the Author: Birmingham, Alabama, native Lawayne Orlando Childrey is a national Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist. He has also won numerous Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters awards. In 2014 the Alabama Community College System named Childrey as one of its most outstanding alumni in the institution’s fifty-year history, and awarded a $5,000 scholarship in Childrey's name to a deserving Alabama high school senior. During the same year, Childrey was named alumnus of the year for Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, and serves as a national VoiceOver artist, HIV/AIDS activist, and motivational and keynote speaker. Peeling Back the Layers is his first book.