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 

institutions 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 as alumnus of the year for 

Jefferson State Community College, in Birmingham. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, and 

serves as a national Voice Over artist, HIV/AIDS activists, and motivational and keynote speaker.  Peeling 

Back the Layers is his first book.