Team

UP Projects has an expert team of strategic thinkers, curators, producers, educators and project managers, who work to deliver our diverse programme. Our work is also supported by our Board of Trustees.

Leila Baetiong

she/her
Project Coordinator

Moira Lascelles

she/her
Executive Director & Head of Partnerships

Jack Newbury

he/him
Producer (Learning and Participation)

Zoë Scholes

she/her
Communications and Development Coordinator

Emma Underhill

she/her
Founder and Artistic Director

Mala Yamey

she/her
Curator

Board of Trustees

Thahmina Begum

she/her
Community Development Worker (Health for ALL, Leeds), Mixed Media Artist and Art Psychotherapist (HCPC,BAAT)

Iain Bennett

he/him
Director, The Fifth Sector

Kaia Charles

she/her
Senior Cultural Projects Manager (NOW Gallery and Greenwich Peninsula) at Knight Dragon Ltd

Jenny Garrett OBE

she/her
Founder, EDI, Leadership Development Consultant

Massy Larizadeh

she/her
Non-Exec Director roles, Founder and Director at New Horizons Advisory

Viya Nsumbu

she/her
Founder and Director, VMN Communications

Peter Ratcliffe

he/him
Barrister, 3VB

George Sawtell

he/him
Treasury Director

Emma Underhill

she/her
Founder and Artistic Director

Critical Friends

UP Projects’ Critical Friends are a voluntary group of influential and trusted individuals who ask provocative questions, provide alternative perspectives, and offer guidance to the UP Projects Trustees and team on the organisation’s direction, curatorial vision, programme priorities, learning offer and approach to relevance and inclusion.

Sam Allen

she/her
Founder and Director of Creative Arts Social Consulting Ltd

Xanthe Arvanitakis

she/her
Director of Chiswick House and Gardens at Chiswick House & Gardens Trust

Paul Augarde

he/him
Placemaking Strategist, Augarde & Partners

Kiera Blakey

she/her
Curator

April Brown

she/her
Cultural Producer & Programme Manager

Pauline de Souza

she/her
Director, Diversity Art Forum

Tamsin Dillon

she/her
Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park

Joe Dunning

he/him
Founder, Dunning & Partners

David Field

he/him
Cultural Communications Consultant

Ian Freshwater

he/him
Senior Economic Development and Regeneration Officer at North Tyne Combined Authority

Jagdip Jagpal

she/her
International Arts & Culture Consultant

Sara Kassam

she/her
Sustainability Lead, V&A

Tabish Khan

he/him
Art Critic

Svetlana Leu

she/her
Head of Communications, CIRCA

Bridget McKenzie

she/her
Creative Curator and Consultant in Regenerative Culture

Fabienne Nicholas

she/her
Director, FN Cultural Consulting

Arman Nouri

he/him
Cultural Worker

Liz O'Sullivan

she/her
Head of Arts at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Helen Pheby

she/her
Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Leanne Tritton

she/her
Managing Director, ING Media Chair, The London Society

Debbie Whitfield

she/her
Consultant