I apply my extensive leadership and facilitation experience to supporting organisations and creative teams in project development, relationship building, and strategy. As an artist, I co-create social justice work with community groups, prioritising platforming voices not normally heard in the mainstream.
Experience
Creative Director & Joint CEO
Community Arts North West (CAN)
Strategic and creative lead of Manchester arts charity. Led organisation through pandemic, established artists training programme, secured NPO funding 2023-2026.
Director of Participation
Brixton House (formerly Ovalhouse)
Led participation in leading London fringe theatre. Established The Paper Project, brokered British Council South Africa partnership, published essays on young refugees.
Programme Lead & Acting Artistic Director
GLYPT (Now Tramshed)
Led Community Theatre Access Course and Voices project for young refugees. Founding member of Refugee and the Arts Initiative (ACE, 1999).
Current Roles
Network Lead
Mainspring Arts
Associate
GMAST
Consultant
A New Direction
Joint PhD Supervisor
University of Manchester
Recent Projects
Selected Creative Work
Breaking the Code
University of Manchester Research Fellowship with refugee artists
Lift the Ban
Campaign events with Refugee Action
Stranger Tales
Verbatim theatre at Southbank Centre
The Paper Project
Young migrant performance collective, BBC featured
We Are London
13-year theatre and visual arts programme
Belongings Conference
First UK youth-led refugee conference
Qualifications
- PGCE Drama – Goldsmiths College
- BA Hons. Drama – Leeds University
- School for Social Entrepreneurs Cultural Leadership Programme
- Carbon Literacy
- Unlearning Racism (Racial Justice Network)
Speaking
Arts Council England, British Council, University of Manchester, Royal Holloway, A New Direction, Refugee Week, DfE
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