Sepake provides the vision and artistic leadership for the organisation as a whole, ensuring that iniva continues to occupy a leading and unique position within international contemporary arts.
All proposals and invitations should be sent to info@iniva.org
Susannah is responsible for the day-to-day strategic, operational and financial management of the organisation. She sets and manages the budgets and ensures efficient and robust financial and operational systems are in place.
susannah@iniva.org
Leila is responsible for iniva’s fundraising and income generation strategy, and maintains our relationships with key funders. She contributes to iniva’s strategic plan and leads on fundraising, communications, public relations, marketing and other income generating activities. She also ensures the smooth running and growth of iniva through successful and experienced communications and relationship management in dialogue with the Artistic Director and Finance & Operations Director.
Tavian manages and oversees the development of Stuart Hall Library, iniva’s archive and runs Stuart Hall Library Research Network and Artist in Residency programmes. She advocates for the collections via social media and through public speaking engagements.
Tavian also manages iniva’s Living Legacies project, an ambitious project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to make iniva’s archive accessible to a wide cross-section of the public, locally, nationally and internationally.
Jack manages the Stuart Hall Library and oversees the development of the collection. He facilitates library group visits, tours and manages library volunteering programmes. He also currently runs the On Our Table programme.
Charlotte assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections, and oversees library appointments and enquiries. She also contributes to running the On Our Table programme, the library volunteering programme and student placements.
Charlotte is also the Communications Coordinator. She manages iniva’s social media accounts and website, and is responsible for the organisation’s monthly newsletter.
Kaitlene is responsible for overseeing the collecting, cataloguing, and digitising of iniva’s archive collections, and engagement with those collections by the public. She assists with running the archive volunteering programme.
Kaitlene is also the Project Archivist for Hauser & Wirth Institute Project ‘Representation and Accessibility in Artist Files’ and advises on the Transforming the Collections Project with UAL Decolonising the Arts Institute as former Project Archivist.
Beatriz is responsible for development and delivery of iniva’s public programme working with artists and key partners to implement artistic production through research, radical art education, unlearning, and wellbeing practices. The curator is responsible for instilling a practice of care in building relationships with artists of African, Caribbean, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indigenous and Latin American descent and their communities.
Adrian supports the management of iniva’s finances.
Stefania supports the management of iniva’s finances.
The iniva team is supported by the generous contribution of student placements, and volunteers within the Stuart Hall Library. iniva relies on the help of library volunteers to support the record keeping and care of our collection, as well as the organisation and support of the library events programme. Student placements contribute significantly to ongoing projects and events including digital and social media development.
We are grateful to all our volunteers and placements that offer iniva the chance to grow and be more ambitious.
Anita is a currently Chair of iniva, Chair of B:Music the charity that runs Symphony Hall and Town Hall Birmingham, Chair of Birmingham City University, Governor of the RSC.
Anita’s media career has been extensive of which she spent over 25 years working with the BBC; from setting up the BBC Asian Network to a News Correspondent, Documentary maker to being Head of Political and Community Affairs in England, then UK Head and Editor of the BBC’s Public Space Broadcasting and President of Circom (a European wide group of public service broadcasters).
Anita has a strong commitment to public services and her portfolio in this area ranges from being past Chair of Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP, and Chair of West Midlands Leadership Commission a Trustee of the Children’s University, Vice-Chair of Council University of Warwick, Past Chair of mac (Midlands Arts Centre), non-Executive Director of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust, a previous Chair of a Junior and Infant school.
In 2009 Anita was awarded an OBE for services to Broadcasting and Communities.
Marc Nahum has worked in the Financial Services industry for over 25 years with a particular focus on the private equity sector.
Born in France, Marc holds an MBA from the Booth Business School of the University of Chicago and a Business Degree from ESSEC (France).
Somil Goyal was born & educated in India, and has lived & worked in six countries in Asia & Europe. His professional focus is business & economic growth through creative use of information technology. Working in banking and consulting, Somil has built high performance teams that constructively challenge the current state. Somil is a member of a number of visual arts institutions (including Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery). He has a personal passion for arts, especially for its ability to bring people from diverse backgrounds together. Somil is a Mechanical Engineer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Rodrigo Orrantia is an art historian and curator who specialises in photography and the moving image. His primary research interest concerns photography as an expanding field, as it connects with printmaking, film, sculpture, text, sound and localised performance. Since graduating from the Historical and Contemporary Photography MA at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, he has developed exhibition programmes with national and international artists, more recently Essence of Place, a group show of three generations of Latin American artists working with photography, identity and place, for Mummery+Schnelle Gallery in London. He has art-directed and coordinated exhibitions for major museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, including the National Media Museum, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, and the Science Museum in London.
During his career, Orrantia has developed a keen interest in the governance and development of art institutions. In 2010 he worked on the Young Professionals in Arts Boards programme Arts & Business in London, and in 2012 attended the Clore Leadership Programme, focusing on funding and strategic development for cultural institutions and projects. His relationship with Iniva spans more than five years, with a close relation to many of their past curators and directors, through researched-based work at the Stuart Hall Library for his Masters degree and curatorial projects.
Arike Oke is a noted cultural leader, a registered archivist, a curator and museology consultant. She leads the screen heritage collections at the British Film Institute in the role of Executive Director of Knowledge and Collections. Her practice is rooted in social justice and the role of culture in giving strength to, and inspiring, individuals and communities.
Formerly she was the Managing Director for Black Cultural Archives, the home of Black British history. She’s worked in heritage for over 15 years, from the seminal Connecting Histories project in Birmingham, to developing Wellcome Collection’s archive, and co-convening Hull’s first official Black History Month.
Her interest in supporting the sector includes assessing funding applications for Wellcome, the Royal Society and the National Archives, assessing impact for REF and judging the 2022 Write on Art Prize.
Her fiction is published in magazines and anthologies. Her critical art writing has been featured in The Girls Are and This is Tomorrow. Her factual writing has appeared in journals. She has written an anti-racism book for children which is to be published in 2022.
Formerly Co-Chair of the Association of Performing Arts Collections, she advises the National Archives, BAFTA, and was a member of the Home Office’s Windrush Working Group. She is a Group Board member at Notting Hill Genesis, and is a fellow of the Arts Council’s Museums and Resilient Leadership programme.
Anh Nguyen is a corporate leader with a passion for the arts and a mission to democratise patronage models by helping art organisations engage more deeply with younger audiences. After over a decade helping large corporates and private equity funds solve complex strategic and financial problems as a director in a global consulting practice, Anh is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Nimi, a museum partner that leverages emerging technology and deep audience insights to develop new models for audience engagement – making the arts more accessible, inclusive, and relevant to the changing needs of millennials and younger generations of cultural omnivores.
During her consulting career, Anh also led the company’s corporate foundation with a $1 million annual giving budget, responsible for grantmaking decisions, mentoring leaders of London-based non-profits, and establishing a pro bono consulting programme for corporate employees to support local charities with their business and financial expertise. Anh was also a long-term supporter and volunteer with Detention Action, a non-profit who supports people unjustly detained in UK’s detention centres.
Anh was born in Vietnam, and has lived and worked in five countries. She received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (USA), and an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago Booth Business School (USA) where she was a Wallman Scholar.
Bokani Tshidzu is an interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of abstract painting, sculpture, computational art and installation. She studied politics with economics at the University of Bath and then obtained a Master’s in Computational Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London,
Bokani’s practice addresses themes such as integral ecology, climate justice and the liberatory capacities of Black womxnist thought. She has produced multiple large-scale public art projects including ‘Untold Stories’, commissioned by the London Mayor’s Office for a mural in Freston Road, 2023. and her recent exhibitions include: Port of Call, Changing Room Gallery, London, 2021; BlackArtOutdoors Billboards in London, Leeds and Bristol; Some of us are brave, 2020-2022 (touring exhibition); Mystical Nature, Roman Road Gallery, 2022; Sibone Okunye (solo), National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, 2023.
Chinyelu is an experienced finance lawyer in the City of London and currently works as a financier focused on sustainability. Her love of the visual arts began in 2002 in Lagos where she helped with the opening of her uncle’s gallery. She is interested in the interactions between the arts, society, business and sustainability in its broadest sense.
Commencing her professional journey with communication management at the EGG art gallery in Beijing’s Caochangdi Art District, Maria Vittoria transitioned into the tech industry while maintaining a passion for promoting arts, education, and cultural institutions. Her diverse experiences include strategic leadership, project management, and collaboration with stakeholders in the creative industry across Asia, the EU, and the UK.
During her tenure at TikTok, Maria Vittoria acquired extensive experience in partnership development, project management for editorial and brand campaigns, and event planning. Notably, she collaborated closely with NGOs and cultural institutions like the Uffizi galleries for the “Learn on TikTok Program,” leveraging her networks to launch digital campaigns, forge impactful partnerships, and manage projects uniting artists, curators, and content creators to explore social justice and cultural perspectives.
Péjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and lecturer born and raised in London. Her work explores the intersection of art, style, and culture, with a focus on liminal theory and diasporic narratives. Oshin has a proven track record of supporting artists at various career stages, collaborating with emerging talents and cultural producers at institutions like Tate, Barbican, and Wellcome Collection.
As an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, Oshin taught courses in Fashion and Culture & Enterprise departments. She authored “Between Words & Space” (2021), a collection of poetry and prose, and has written for various artists monographs, the 2025 Ars Viva Prize and the Financial Times HTSI. In 2021, Oshin was shortlisted for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Arts & Culture category and selected as one of fifteen “rising stars” by AWITA.
Currently serving as Associate Director at Gagosian, Oshin is also a member of the ArtFund Curatorial Diversity Steering Group. Her previous roles include Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate (2018-2022), Chair of Trustees at Peckham Platform and a judge for a number of cultural initiatives. Oshin’s multifaceted career demonstrates her commitment to fostering diverse voices in the art world and bridging cultural gaps through her curatorial practice.