Shura Davey Joseph-Gruner
Chair of the Board and Education and Accessibility Advisor

Shura Davey Joseph-Gruner is an artist, educator, and researcher from London. Shura's arts practice includes photography, digital media, and curation. Most recently, he contributed a digital artwork to 'Echoes of Solidarity' by the Afro Middle East Centre in South Africa in 2022. He also co-devised 'Neurodiversions', a series of immersive exhibitions established in 2019 that explore the production of culture and knowledge by neurodivergent people.
As an educator, Shura's specialisms are in accessible and critical pedagogies and he teaches across the London College of Communication's Design School and in the University of the Arts London's flagship Inclusive Practice Unit. Previously, he has also worked in 1:1 support for disabled students at Chelsea and Camberwell Colleges of Art, Central Saint Martins, and BRIT School.


Sarah Shin
Publishing Strategy Advisor

Sarah Shin is a writer, publisher and curator whose work includes making books, texts, gardens, games, scents, spaces, portals and practices. She is a founder of Ignota, a creative publishing and curatorial house exploring consciousness, technology and healing; Silver Press, the feminist publisher; New Suns, a curatorial project that began as a literary festival at the Barbican Centre; and Standard Deviation, a spatial practice exploring the coincidence of psychic, geometric and inhabited space through methods including storytelling, dreaming, memory, architecture and digital processes.

Daniella Valz Gen
Curatorial and Pedagogical Advisor

Daniella Valz Gen, a poet, artist, and oracle, explores intersections among languages, cultures, and value systems with a focus on embodiment and ritual. With over fifteen years of international experience, their work has been featured in exhibitions, performances, and residencies worldwide. They authored "Subversive Economies" (PSS 2018) and contributed to various art journals. As the 2018 writer in residency for Serpentine’s ‘Writing the City, Language & Power’, and through projects like "(Be)longing" in 2019, they investigate migration and ecology through site-specific interventions. In October 2022, Valz Gen participated in the OrganizmoBloom residency in La Urbana, Colombia, witnessing a reclamation of traditions. Engaged with not/nowhere and the87press's advisory board, they promote inclusive publishing practices and alternative pedagogies.

Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura
Creative Partnerships Advisor

Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, a cultural programmer from London, founded Sabi Arts and has directed creative programming at NTS for over a decade. Born in Freetown and shaped by European cities, she's a key figure in London's music scene and supports emerging artists globally. With over ten years of experience, she has collaborated with prestigious institutions like ICA, Tate Modern, Barbican, and Serpentine Galleries, producing diverse audio-visual events for NTS Radio as Executive Programming Director. She's curated multi-venue music festivals in London and recently focused on music supervision for projects like "The African Desperate." Tabitha hosts a monthly radio show on NTS and DJs as TTB at venues across the UK and Europe.

Danah Abdulla
Design and Financial Advisor

Danah Abdulla is a Palestinian-Canadian designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the discipline. She is Programme Director of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts (University of the Arts London). She has previously held positions at Brunel University London and London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). Danah obtained her Ph.D. in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London and is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform. In 2010, she founded Kalimat Magazine, an independent, nonprofit publication about Arab thought and culture. Her research focuses on decolonising design, possibilities of design education, design culture(s), the politics of design, publishing, and social design. www.dabdulla.com

Joe Luna
Editorial Advisor

Joe Luna’s books of poetry include Astroturf and Other Poems (2013), Ten Zones (2014), Air Hunger (2018), and Development Hell (2020). He lives and works in Brighton. 

Gurdeep Mattu
Trade and Distribution Advisor

Gurdeep Mattu is a publisher and the author of Sons and Fascination (Paperbooks, 2011) as well as several pamphlets. He works as an Editorial Project Manager at the British Standards Institution (BSI) and has held senior roles at Bloomsbury, Continuum, RLI and Sunrise Publishing. His poetic influences include T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, H.D. and William Carlos Williams. Gurdeep is working on his second novel, "Sister Feelings Call", and can be found blogging at gurdeepmattu.wordpress.com