Um-E-Aymen Babar is an award-winning multilingual journalist working at the intersection of race, class and sport. She won the 2022 Hugh Cudlipp Award for her debut piece in Wisden. She was also shortlisted for the 2022 Vikki Orvice Student Football Writer of the Year Award. Um-E-Aymen won the inaugural BCOMS x Chelsea Foundation scholarship to study for her NCTJ and currently works as a journalist for BBC Sport.