MIGRATION MUSEUM - Key Persons
Abigail was the Chief Executive of the Jewish Museum from 2012 to 2020. She has a background in theatre and from 1992 to 2005 was Artistic Director and CEO of the Soho Theatre. More recently, she has been Chief Executive of Jewish Women's Aid and then ResponseAbility, a cross-communal Jewish think-tank.
Job Titles:
- Artistic Director
- CEO
- Creative Producer
Aditi Anand is a creative producer and curator with experience working within the arts and nonprofit sectors. Previously, she produced and managed a multimedia education project in India that is currently being implemented in over a thousand schools and was communications lead for India's largest media for social change initiative. She has also worked in New York with the Museum of the Moving Image and interactive design firm, Local Projects. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News
Afua Hirsch is the Social Affairs and Education editor for Sky News. She was previously Observer's West Africa correspondent, writing news, analysis and features and working on investigative projects for print and broadcast.
Afua has a background in journalism, having written for the Voice newspaper on issues affecting young black people while still at school. She went on to work in international development, living in West Africa for two years in her early career, and then trained as a lawyer, practising as a barrister in criminal defence before joining the Guardian in 2008 as legal affairs correspondent. She continues to engage in human rights and development issues in the developing world, and works with young people through mentoring and education programmes with an emphasis on diversity and increasing access to law and the media.
Afua's book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018 to considerable acclaim.
Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.' He has written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries and include such well known titles as How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and A Week at the Airport. Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called the School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education. Alain's most recent books are Art as Therapy and The News: A User's Manual.
Alice first joined the Migration Museum as a volunteer and researcher before starting as a freelancer. She studied Anthropology at university and is currently researching museums, social media and populist politics for her PhD at UCL. She has previously worked in lots of different museums and heritage organisations around the UK and has a wide range of academic and practical experience working in museums. Alice is committed to expanding inclusion and democracy in museums and heritage.
Angélica Dass is an award-winning photographer born in Brazil and currently living in Madrid, Spain. Angélica's practice combines photography with sociological research and public participation in defense of human rights globally. She is the creator of the internationally acclaimed Humanæ Project-a collection of portraits that reveal the diverse beauty of human colors. The initiative has traveled across six continents-from The World economic Forum in Davos to the pages of National Geographic, -to promote dialogue that challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity.
Ann Grant's first career was as a British diplomat. She joined the U.K. Diplomatic Service in 1972, with subsequent postings in India, Mozambique, the U.K. delegation to the European Union and the U.K. Mission to the UN in New York. She left to work for OXFAM as Communications Director for two years in the late 1980s. Returning to the FCO she was later Director for Africa and the Commonwealth from 1998 and from 2000-2005 was the British High Commissioner to South Africa.
She then joined Standard Chartered Bank as Vice Chair for Africa from 2005-2014, and was an independent member of Council at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2006-2020. She has volunteered at the Peckham Citizens Advice Bureau. Ann chairs the Serious Trust, supporting young people in jazz.
Aubrey Rose OBE, CBE, D.Univ has been a lawyer, prolific writer and author, teacher, communicator, occasional business man, sportsman and football coach - and has received countless awards, including the OBE and CBE for his participation in myriad community and diplomatic causes both in the UK and overseas. A human rights lawyer, he was the first Jewish commissioner on the Commission for Racial Equality.
Aubrey was born in 1926 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents. After winning a scholarship to Cowper Street School, he left school at 17 and went straight to work in a City legal practice, qualifying as a lawyer in 1952 and quickly opening his own small practice. He acted largely for minority communities, in particular the West Indian community, which faced much discrimination in those days. By the mid-60s, Aubrey had become legal advisor to all the Caribbean governments and, in the 70s, he helped 400 Caribbeans immigrants obtain compensation when their charter flight company collapsed. In return, he was invited to visit Barbados with his wife and young family.
Aubrey retired from the law in 1996, although he has continued to give informal advice and has given/written more than 300 talks and articles on a huge range of topics, been a found of knowledge and been involved in a wealth of community activities to the present day. His integrity, sincerity, sheer humanity and wit still shine brightly.
Ayesha is a community and public engagement specialist with over a decade of experience working to transform systems and practice in the public and housing sectors, to ensure community voice is at the heart of everything they do. She is the Principal Community Engagement Officer at Greater London Authority, currently leading the Engaging Londoners in Recovery programme, and has developed the organisation's work on community and citizen-led engagement. She led the Social Integration policy team and has worked on key issues affecting Londoners, including, Covid-19, Brexit, migration, workforce diversity and serious youth violence. Ayesha is committed to championing the value of lived experience, and person-centred approaches in policy and decision making to amplify the voices of under-served communities. She is a public authority representative for the Grenfell Memorial Commission and has previously worked for the London Borough of Hounslow and A2Dominion Housing Group.
Charles Gurassa has extensive senior leadership and governance experience across the charity, corporate and heritage sectors. As well as being Chair of the Migration Museum, Charles is Chair of Oxfam GB, Guardian Media Group and Great Rail Journeys, and a Trustee of English Heritage. Recent non-executive positions include Senior Independent Director of Merlin Entertainments plc and Deputy Chair of easyJet plc. Charles is a former Chair of Channel 4, Virgin Mobile plc, LOVEFiLM, Phones4U, MACH, Tragus, Parthenon Entertainments and Alamo/National Rent a Car and former Deputy Chair of the National Trust. His executive career included roles as Chief Executive of Thomson Travel Group plc, Executive Chair TUI Northern Europe, Director TUI AG and as Director, Passenger & Cargo business at British Airways. He is a former Non-Executive Director at Whitbread plc, trustee of the children's charity Whizz-Kidz and a Member of the Development Board of the University of York.
Job Titles:
- Education Assistant
- Worker
Cym is an experienced youth worker looking to transfer his skills to the arts and culture sphere. He has worked with education and youth work organisations such as the NCS, the Scouts and Turney (SEND) School. He brings a passion for education and interest in bolstering the school curriculum with cultural, social and environmental awareness. As a recent Criminology & Psychology graduate, Cym will bring his research skills, readiness to learn and a commitment to social inclusivity to the team.
Damien was elected Mayor of Lewisham in 2018, having been a Labour councillor in Lewisham since 2010. Born in Cork his family moved to Bristol as a child. It was there where his family experienced homelessness, an experience that shaped Damien's political views. Before becoming Mayor of Lewisham Damien worked for the NGO the Ethical Trading Initiative.
Damien has focussed on celebrating Lewisham's diversity and culture, tackling the housing crisis and meeting the Climate Emergency. He has made Lewisham London's lead borough in refugee resettlement by resettling 100 refugee families escaping the Syrian Civil War between 2018 and 2022. Additionally, Lewisham has become London's first Borough of Sanctuary and diversity was a key theme of Lewisham's 2021 Borough of Culture Award.
Job Titles:
- Digital Content Officer
- Director of Communications and Engagement
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Associate
- Member of the Education Committee
Jessica is Associate Assistant Headteacher of teaching and learning, and second in charge of History, Sociology and Politics at Preston Manor School in North West London. She began teaching in 2012 and has taught in a number of North London schools, and been head of literacy. Jessica has also been education officer at the Holocaust Educational Trust and still educates with them on a freelance basis. Her PhD was in Refugee students' engagement with learning about the Holocaust and has gone on to explore whether those findings are similar across all sensitive histories. Jessica has contributed to the development of migration curricula across schools and exam boards. She contributes regularly to History teacher CPD, including for the Historical Association has collaborated with other teachers in forming the London History Teachers Network.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
Sundeep was appointed Lecturer in Black and Asian British History at King's College London in 2020. Born and raised in West London, Sundeep read Modern History at St Andrews and Modern South Asian History at Oxford. Her PhD research at Cambridge is situated at the intersection of British and World History and examines the evolution of British citizenship and immigration policy in the years between 1945 and 1962 in a global historical context. Before embarking on her PhD studies, Sundeep spent time living and teaching in Germany.
From 2018-2020, Sundeep worked as Research Associate on the interdisciplinary research project Beyond Banglatown, which explores the history of the ‘Indian' restaurant trade on Brick Lane. Between 2016 and 2018, Sundeep was based at The Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading independent race equality think tank, where she co-led the multi-award-winning Our Migration Story education project and the recent national #TeachRaceMigrationEmpire campaign. Each of these projects has worked to raise the visibility of British histories of race, empire and migration in the school curriculum.
Job Titles:
- Education Assistant
- Director of Learning and Partnerships
Emily oversees our education programme and coordinates our Migration Network across the UK. She has grown the Migration Museum's education programme from scratch, engaging thousands of primary, secondary and university students, teachers and academics since joining the Migration Museum in 2013.
Following an anthropology degree, Emily trained as a citizenship teacher with TeachFirst and then moved on to co-ordinate an international education programme. She then worked at Seeds of Peace summer camps - which bring teenagers from the Middle East and South Asia together - and subsequently took an MA in Conflict Resolution in the Peace Studies division at Bradford University. This MA led to her role at the Migration Museum.
Eric is an internationally recognised planner of new museums and cultural projects. He is a founding partner of Barker Langham, one of the world's leading cultural consultancies. Eric directs Barker Langham's visitor experience work and has provided creative, strategic and curatorial direction for national museums, World Heritage Sites and cultural giga-projects in Europe, Asia and North America. His global portfolio includes creative visioning for major new institutions including the National Museum of Qatar, the House of European History in Brussels, the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial and the Grand Canal Museum in China. Eric is a Trustee and former Commissioning Editor for the Association of Heritage Interpretation, a Fellow of the Museums Association, an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Exeter), an expert advisor to the Foundation for Jewish Heritage and a mentor and expert advisor to UK's National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Frances joined the museum as Gallery Supervisor after completing a Public History MA at Royal Holloway College. She is passionate about ensuring wider access to cultural institutions and their output, with a particular interest in the positive impact participation in heritage can have upon well-being. Born in London to Irish parents, Frances is proud to work at the UK's only national migration museum and help highlight and celebrate migrant communities in the UK.
George Alagiah OBE was born in Sri Lanka in 1955, and in 1961 his family moved to Ghana in West Africa. George subsequently came to England to undertake his secondary education at school in Portsmouth, and went on to study politics at Van Mildert College, Durham University. George joined the BBC in 1989 after seven years in print journalism with South Magazine. Before going behind the news desk, he was one of the BBC's leading foreign correspondents, reporting on events ranging from the genocide in Rwanda, the plight of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq and civil wars in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Somalia: he also covered the and 9/11 attacks on New York. A specialist on Africa and the developing world, George Alagiah interviewed, among others, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and Robert Mugabe. Since December 2007 George has presented BBC News at 6, Britain's most-watched news programme.
From 2002 to 2009 George Alagiah was a patron of the Fairtrade Foundation; he is also a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is married to Frances Robathan, with whom he has two sons. George Alagiah is the author of three books; the award-winning Passage to Africa; A Home from Home, a look at multicultural Britain; and critically acclaimed novel The Burning Land.
Job Titles:
- Director of Development
- Director of Learning and Partnerships
Georgina Lewis joined the Migration Museum following 5 years developing and managing multi-million dollar grants for an International Development NGO providing reproductive health services in 37 countries. Georgina has a wide range of project management and not for profit experience. She has been a mentor and volunteer coordinator for the Terrence Higgins Trust Refugee Mentoring Project and a volunteer advisor at Praxis. Her experience also includes being marketing manager for an international conference company, project managing the introduction of new qualifications for 14-19 year olds in Hackney's Local Education Authority, communications management for an online publishing company and consultancy roles for several NGOs working on women's rights during a year in La Paz, Bolivia. Georgina has a BA in Hispanic Studies and Politics from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Global Politics from LSE.
Ghaf Tajmohammad works as a practicing artist and cultural practitioner, who is passionate about advocating for increased social integration between different communities. This is in part due to his personal background as a refugee child, where he left Afghanistan with his family to settle in the UK. His interest lies in subjects of cultural identity, heritage and ideas of belonging. Having graduated from University of the Arts London in BA Painting, he has previously worked as an artist fabricator. More recently, he worked as a creative producer for the Migration Museum and is also interning as a project manager for Turquoise Mountain.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
- Head of History at the Charter School East Dulwich
Hannah Cusworth is Head of History at The Charter School East Dulwich. She began teaching in 2012 and has taught in a number of London academies. At her current school, Hannah has led the creation of a curriculum that embraces migration stories and the history of empire and race. She regularly contributes to CPD in the History community, including workshops for the Historical Association and the Schools History Project. This summer, she contributed three sets of lessons to the Oak National Academy which focused on Mansa Musa, British America and the forgotten armies of the First World War.
Job Titles:
- Learning Manager
- Programmer and Gallery Supervisor
Harriet studied Geography (BA) at Newcastle University before moving to London to complete her masters in Curating Contemporary Art. Her dissertation focused on the importance of making museums and other spatial contexts relevant to the social causes they speak on. This has shaped her strong belief that the arts have great power in shaping social change.
Harriet has a particular enthusiasm for engaging all communities in museum activities and events, and crucially, allowing all to feel included and understood. She believes diversifying the form of activity surrounding exhibitions can allow audiences that do not have an art historical background to infiltrate the work of galleries and museums.
During the pandemic Harriet worked on developing creative workshop content for Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership, channeling creative thinking to connect people and identify ways in which London's many communities can be reflected in cultural organisations.
Job Titles:
- Operations Manager & Community Engagement Programmer
Jason Page is a space activator and connector at heart with decades experience working at the intersection of government, community affairs, social change and the arts. His passion is unlocking new opportunities for young people and making space for unheard voices, talents and communities. Having lived all over the United States Jason has called Lewisham home for the last 10 years and currently produces a physical network called South East Salon which serves as a global access point for bringing creativity, enterprise and resources to new and exciting spaces throughout south east London.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
- Head of Museum Learning the Langley Academy Trust
Jenny Blay has been head of museum learning The Langley Academy Trust since 2011. This is the only academy with museum learning specialism in the UK. The Trust consists of three schools, one secondary and two primaries. They use museums to help children and young people achieve and thrive, working with all school departments to integrate museum learning. Jenny held previous roles at the MLA as cultural entitlement schools liaison officer and then strategic commissioning project manager. Before that she was community learning manager at Osterley House; a National Trust property in West London.
Katy joins the Migration Museum from a background in both the charity and retail sectors. After studying Mathematics at the University of Warwick, she worked in fashion buying and merchandising for several years before moving to work in charity merchandise and ecommerce. She oversees the Migration Museum's shop and online shop, sourcing the product ranges, books, and art. She is committed to offering products that can inspire, educate, or delight on the theme of migration whilst supporting the museum and migrant-run small businesses through the Migrant Makers Market.
As a Lewisham resident, she is proud to serve her local communities through her work at the Migration Museum.
Kimberley is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in textile sculpture - specifically crochet. After studying BA Fine Art Sculpture and undertaking further studies, she seeks to fuse garments, art and connecting with people.
She uses her practice to explore healing and craft in relation to nature and organic forms, and seeks to use her creative practice to make art more accessible to a wider audience. Working at the Migration Museum grants the opportunity to interact with a wide range of individuals that branch away from the traditional contemporary art setting, and allows the opportunity to understand how this environment cultivates a sense of comfort and inclusivity.
Kimberley works part-time at the museum as a Gallery Supervisor.
Kuljit Dhillon is the daughter of Punjabi Indian parents who came to England in the 1960s. Kuljit grew up in Hertfordshire and studied Social Policy at Kingston University before entering the civil service in 2002. During her career as a civil servant Kuljit has worked on policy and strategy in a number of government departments. Kuljit was Secretary to the Stern Review into Rape Complaints, led policy development for the 2010 Equality Act, and has advised Ministers as a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office. In August 2021 Kuljit left the civil service to join the General Medical Council as Assistant Director of Strategy. Kuljit is a Parent Governor on the Academy Council of her son's school and has previously been a trustee on the Board of Women's Pioneer Housing.
Job Titles:
- Learning Manager
- Museum Manager
Liberty joins the Migration Museum Project from a background in the heritage sector. Following her undergraduate studies in History at the University of Nottingham, she has worked for the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands and volunteered for the National Trust and Hackney Museum. Liberty's career to date has focused on learning and community engagement. She has also recently completed an MA in Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Cultures from the University of Westminster, during which her dissertation explored the representation of migration in the UK cultural heritage sector.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Professor of Modern British History at UCL
Margot Finn is Professor of Modern British History at UCL, where her research and teaching focus on the period from 1750 to the present. Her current publications explore the history of the East India Company and its impact on British society, politics and culture from the 18th to the 21st century. These include The East India Company at Home, 1750-1850 (open access, UCL Press 2018) and New Paths to Public Histories (Palgrave Pivot, 2015). A former trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, she also takes a lively interest in the impact of colonialism, empire and migration on present-day cultural and heritage organisations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
Martin Spafford is a retired history teacher who has helped devise GCSE courses, run workshops and write textbooks and learning resources on the history of migration to Britain. He is an honorary fellow of the Schools History Project and the Historical Association and was a consultant to the Our Migration Story website. As a volunteer and trustee with Journey to Justice he is particularly interested in opening the young to untold stories of everyday people as agents for change.
Job Titles:
- Director of Communications
- Director of Development
- Director of Communications and Engagement
Matthew is Director of Communications and Engagement at the Migration Museum. Prior to joining in 2016, he worked as a journalist and editor for a range of publications including the Financial Times, Euromoney and MSN.
A born-and-bred Londoner with family roots in multiple countries, he is a strong believer in the need for a dedicated, permanent Migration Museum for Britain.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Trustee
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Mohan Mansigani OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. A Finance Director with extensive private equity experience, he played a key leadership role in establishing Big Table Group (previously known as Tragus) as a major UK restaurant business including Café Rouge and Strada. He led the business through two private equity transactions including a £267m sale to Blackstone in 2007. Mohan also successfully helped establish the growth model for Costa Coffee and TGI Fridays in the UK. He is currently the Chairman of Bob & Berts, a rapidly expanding chain of coffee shops and cafes which is backed by Business Growth Fund. Mohan has been the Finance Trustee of St John Ambulance since 2016 with a focus on commercial matters. Mohan was awarded an OBE in recognition of his charitable work and achievements in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Museum Manager
- Museum Operations Manager and Community Engagement Programmer
Mona first joined the Migration Museum Project as a volunteer in 2016. As a second-generation refugee, she brings a personal experience of migration to the team. Having also worked with unaccompanied asylum seekers in London, her interests focus on conflict, forced migration and settlement in the UK. Mona studied Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Amsterdam. She has recently completed an MSc in Human Rights at the London School of Economics.
Nilufar is an experienced business leader in the marketing communications industry. She currently works for Mindshare, a WPP company specialising in media, data, technology and transformation services, as their Global Chief Client Officer. Prior to that, she has held multiple positions in different agencies and countries, including two CEO roles. Nilufar is the daughter of first generation Asian immigrants, who arrived in the UK in the early 1960s, so is passionate about the mission of the Migration Museum.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
- Professor of Science and Environmental Education
Justin is professor of science and environmental education at University College London and Guest Professor at Zhejiang University, China. Justin taught in London schools for 10 years before becoming an academic (subsequently working at King's College London, Bristol and Exeter). His research interests are in learning in and outside the classroom, climate change and sustainability education. Justin is President of the National Association for Environmental Education and Chair of Trustees of the Exeter Science Centre. He edits the journal, Studies in Science Education, and is an editor of the International Journal of Science Education.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
- CEO of the Historical Association
Rebecca Sullivan is CEO of the Historical Association. She has held this post since 2007. The Historical Association is a membership charity that supports the teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all levels and brings together people who share an interest in and love for the past. They inspire people to get involved with history, whether in the classroom, at college, in the library or at home. They have regional committees and are also steered by a committee of primary teachers and secondary teachers. Previous to the Historical Association, Rebecca was a senior Humanities publisher at Pearson Edexcel.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Editor of the Independent
Robert Winder is the former literary editor of the Independent and deputy editor of Granta. He is a regular contributor to publications including the Observer and New Statesman. He is the best-selling author of Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain (2004), The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness (2017), and Soft Power: The Great New Game (2020). He has also written books about cricket and golf and three novels.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Education Committee
Sally McCartney has worked in London academies as a Teacher and Subject Leader of history for over a decade and is driven by a desire to make history accessible, engaging, and enquiring to as many children as possible. Sally's current role is a Subject Advisor, for the United Learning School Improvement Team. In this role she supports 50 departments nationally with their curriculum, assessment, improvement plans and teaching and learning development. Whilst she remains a dedicated history teacher, she is also focused on the strategic reach of working for a national MAT and leading teams to drive improvement. Recently, Sally project-managed the history lessons for the Key Stage 4 Oak National Academy curriculum. She is also a Trustee of First Rung, a youth education charity in North London.
Sarah Caplin is a qualified solicitor and former TV executive for both the BBC and ITV in senior production and management roles. She was responsible for devising and producing a wide range of factual programmes, and launched the children's charity ChildLine, for which she served as a trustee for many years. In 2012 she was part of the small team creating the Silver Line Helpline charity for older people. She is a keen supporter of the arts and a trustee of The Alfred Caplin Family Charitable Trust.
Sonia Solicari joined the Museum of the Home as Director in January 2017, overseeing a new brand and vision and a £18.6m redevelopment of the building and gardens. Previous roles include Head of the Guildhall Art Gallery and London's Roman Amphitheatre and Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the V&A.
Sonia has published and lectured widely on historic art and design, and histories of home. She is currently co-director of the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership with Queen Mary, University of London and an international hub for research on the home, past, present and future.
Sophie Henderson practised as an immigration barrister for many years, latterly at Tooks Court, chambers of Michael Mansfield QC, where she specialised in all areas of immigration, asylum and human rights law. She provided training for the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association and was a volunteer adviser at Praxis. In 2002, she became judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, and was also appointed to chair appeals for the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal. She is a trustee of Our Hut, a charity that delivers architecture-based workshops in schools. She has managed the Migration Museum Project full time since January 2011.
Sue McAlpine is currently freelancing as a curator, working especially in community engagement in museums and now as part time curator for the Migration Museum Project. She joined Hackney Museum in 2006 curating exhibitions, managing collections and working closely with Hackney's communities. She worked in Notting Hill as a carnivalist, oral historian, exhibition designer and community historian. In 1990 she established an education service at Gunnersbury Park Museum and was Education Officer at the Museum of London from 1977.
Sue is also learning to be a facilitator using storytelling and narrative as a way of transforming conflict. Sue has four children and lives with her partner Bill Bingham, an actor and journalist, on the borders of Hackney and Islington.
Tia joins the Migration Museum following 5 happy years working in heritage education and community engagement. Following a MA in Early Modern History from Durham University, she has worked for several different heritage sites and is currently enjoying her freelance work with The Heritage Training Academy, which offers foundational skills to help young people from diverse communities to pursue careers in heritage. In her spare time Tia is a Contributing Writer for Girl Museum, helping to share untold stories about girls throughout history.
Tia is particularly passionate about proving young people belong in museums and diversifying the stories that are told there. As a second-generation immigrant Tia has a personal interest in migration and is looking forward to finding new and creative ways to engage communities with the topic through her role as Learning Officer.