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Aditi Kumar

Aditi Kumar

Aditi Kumar is an Art historian, Curator and Cultural practitioner. Her scholarship interrogates the role of art and culture in the formation of postcolonial nation-states and national or regional identities of the Global South. Her research focuses on the visual histories and identity politics of marginalised communities. Aditi is also an ardent believer in sustainable living and practices a plant-based lifestyle.

Jasmine Chohan

Jasmine Chohan

Jasmine Chohan is an Associate Lecturer and a final-year PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She specialises in Contemporary Cuban Art, Global Biennials, Contemporary Asian Art and Contemporary British Diaspora Art. Having first studied Cuban art at the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana, Jasmine later completed a course in Art History at the University of Havana in 2015. She continued her work in Cuba by working as an artistic producer and translator for the 12th Havana Biennial.

Azumi Uchitani, Japanese culture expert, lecturer

Azumi Uchitani

Azumi is on a mission to build an essential bridge between Japan and Europe, helping global leaders discover Japanese ancient wisdom beyond culture, teaching how to apply its wisdom in everyday life, act with inner peace and create
conscious leadership and fulfilling life.

Samantha Allen, art engagement specialist, educator

Samantha Allen

Sam is an arts engagement specialist, working internationally with audiences, museum and heritage professionals to transform meaning and provide authentic engagement in programming, events and external communications. She is an innovator who combines strategic marketing, education and arts administration to catalyse change and has run her own international arts organisation since 2014. Sam is passionate advocate of racial activism and has a BA in Classical Studies and an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy.

Chinese culture expert and linguist

Catherine Xiang

Catherine Xiang (MEd, PhD) is an established author and applied linguist with rich experience in the higher education as well as high profile consultancy industry to businesses that wish to engage with China. She has recently launched her own YouTube channel “字espresso” teaching the relationship between Chinese characters and words.

Jordana Belaiche dramaturg, producer and educator

Jordana Belaiche

Jordana Belaiche is a writer, director and dramaturg based in London. Her work centres on class and gender, she has a love of folklore, witchcraft and the occult and is well versed in all things uncanny. She is the author of two full length plays and several short stories. Find more of her projects and work through IG.

Bojana Popovic, art historian, advisor and lecturer

Bojana Popovic

Upon completing her Masters in Curating at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Bojana worked at TATE Britain and The Serpentine Galleries before seeking experience in the private art sector. For a few years she worked for private art galleries in Zurich and Paris before moving to the leading auction house, Christie’s, in London. During her four years at Christie’s she worked as a Specialist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art department where she also led art history lectures in collaboration with Christie’s Education’s MA programme. Since then, Bojana has been working as a freelance art consultant, Art History lecturer and writer.

Inna Didenko founder and director of LEVEL

Inna Didenko

Inna is a founder and manager of LEVEL. She has also been running an online art gallery - Art Acacia - which successfully promotes emerging artists around the world. She believes that any artistic expression hides clues to better understanding of cultures, philosophies, world views and our own emotions.

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