With over 10 years’ experience of working in the arts and culture sector, Svetlana is a cultural strategy and communications specialist with a passion for diversity and representation. At communications agencies, she has worked with leading brands, museums and cultural organisations such as Audemars Piguet Contemporary, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Art Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Roundhouse.

Svetlana has recently been appointed to an in house role as the first Head of Communications and Partnerships at CIRCA, an arts and culture platform with purpose that stops the clock on global billboards every night at 20:23, mobilising the world’s greatest creative minds to broadcast works of art that consider our world circa now.

Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, she is an art historian by training, having read a BA in History of Art at the University of York. Svetlana is one of the youngest people of colour to hold a Vice Chair position in the art sector in her role as Vice Chair of Culture&, a charity that is dedicated to opening up and diversifying the arts and culture workforce and audiences. Svetlana is also a trustee at Mimosa House.