Michael I. Ohajuru is Project Director and Chief Evangelist of The John Blanke Project: a contemporary Art and Archive project celebrating John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He is also founder of Image of the Black tours in London Galleries.

Ohajuru speaks regularly on the black presence in Renaissance Europe, with previous appearances at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the National Gallery, London, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum on the subject. He is a founding member of the Black Presence in British Portraiture network, managing their podcast – The BP2 Podcast.