The Inc Arts team is growing...

Amanda is the Founder and Chief Executive of Inc Arts. Before starting Inc Arts Amanda was Editor of Arts Professional, the news and features magazine for the UK’s arts workforce. She's a former Campaigns Manager and Development Producer for BBC Four and BBC2 arts programmes, and holds a clutch of industry awards including a Royal Television Award, MIND Mental Health in the Media award, CRE Race in the Media award and a couple of Webbys.

Amanda created the TV industry’s first report on gender diversity and employment of TV directors, leading to sector-wide training and recruitment change.

Sam is an award-winning arts engagement specialist and the Founder and Director of Creative Arts Social. Since 2012, she has worked as an arts and heritage consultant, dismantling structural inequities to catalyse positive and sustainable change by developing audience engagement strategies, improving workforce opportunities for marginalised people and building inclusive business development plans to positively transform organisational cultures inside and out.  

She has worked with organisations such as the British Council, the Wellcome Collection, the Black Cultural Archives, the Tate Modern and Culture&. Sam also sits on the Executive Committee for Museum Detox as Partnerships Lead.  

Julie Clare is Producer of Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and Associate Producer of Baby Reindeer (Olivier for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre 2020). She has produced in the West End, Off West End and Off Broadway, including Lin Manuel Miranda’s Olivier award-winning In The Heights. Future productions include Raised Voices  with Fresh Voices UK (where she is also Strategic Director), The Young Vic and the Bush Theatre promoting female playwrights of African and Caribbean descent, and Bollywood Rose with a creative team and cast of South Asian descent. She previously worked in PR, consulting, marketing and business development for a range of organisations and has been working on diversity related issues in the arts for over a decade.

Carol Russell is a consultant, screenwriter, actress, teacher and founder of Fresh Voices UK, a network which amplifies the work of ethnically diverse screenwriters in the television industry. For over 20 years she has worked in organisational change and EDI for consultancies such as Sparknow, Trans4mation and Taylor Stewart Associates.

As a screenwriter she has written for BAFTA-nominated drama Soon Gone: Windrush Chronicles (BBC), the BAFTA-nominated Story of Tracy Beaker, 

House of Usher (short film for BBC), and two seasons of Comin' Atcha, a series based on the lives of English girl group Cleopatra. She recently co-wrote the book Invisible to Valuable with author and advertising professional Jane Evans. 

Deborah has been working in the performing arts for over 15 years. She began her career onstage as a dancer and classical musician before turning her hand to the business, financial and management side of the profession. Deborah has assisted and consulted on various campaigns that inform policy and best practice relating to the creative industries, is an Ambassador for the F-List UK, and worked with Parents and Carers in Performing Arts for several years. She has worked forThe Watermill, York Theatre Royal, Theatr Clwyd Cymru, Queens Theatre Hornchurch and Eastern Angles Theatre Company as well as at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in London’s West End.

 Leah is a creative producer, specialising in film and moving image. Recent film projects include An Echo for my Father (Jamila Prowse, 2021), Animal Antics (Patrick Goddard, 2021), and MASS (Nadeem Din-Gabisi, 2020). MASS was selected for Minikino Film Week, Alchemy and Glasgow Short Film Festivals 2021, and Animal Antics will be premiering at British Art Show 9. She also has a focus on advocacy work, which includes her former roles as head of Curation for TEDxUCLWomen and programming for Fringe of Colour online arts festival. 

Jessi Parrott is a performer, playwright and academic with Cerebral Palsy, and a powered wheelchair user. They recently completed their PhD at the University of Warwick, working between the School of Theatre Studies and Warwick Business School to position disability as an employment issue in UK theatre and television. These combined personal and professional perspectives mean they are passionate about Inc Arts' mission, and its commitment to intersectionality. 

Georgia trained at the Royal Academy of Dance and started her career teaching dance in inner city mainstream schools, special schools, youth centres and community provisions. She has planned and facilitated arts projects in many London Boroughs, where young people from challenging backgrounds struggled to access the arts. She further developed her expertise from facilitating arts projects to developing a career in events marketing. After completing a BA in Arts Management, Georgia went on to develop over 10 years of digital marketing experience across a wide range of corporate sectors in the EMEA territories. 

Sammy is a horror producer and curator in the Theatre and visual art industry. For Inc Arts she covers research, training and social media management.

 Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu is a Glasgow-based musician, researcher and educator. She is heavily involved in the trade union movement, in particular as an activist with the Musicians’ Union and the University and College Union. Diljeet also works as an arts producer, involved in programming events through the Scottish-Asian Creative Artists’ Network, which she co-founded in 2017. Diljeet holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2019) and teaches at several higher education providers. She provides freelance research and consultancy services across the UK. Musically, Diljeet makes experimental, improvised music with flutes, electronics and spoken word, and is regularly engaged as a live and studio session player. Find out more about Diljeet’s work and listen to her music.

Rachel Gnagniko is a French-Togolese consultant specialising in equality, diversity and inclusion living in the UK.  

She conducts focus groups, policy writing, and workshops for arts organisations engaged in enhancing their creative case for diversity: The Reader, Open Eye Gallery, and FACT.  In 2019, she presented at the 7thBiennial Conference Network Afroeuropeans on the impact of Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum on the European racial narrative.  

Rachel studied labour and organisational sciences at the Conservatoire National Des Arts Et Métiers, has a Master’s in communication strategy from the European Communication School, and specialised in diversity management practices at the Chartered Management Institute.