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.