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KAVITA PURI is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She devised and presented the landmark series Partition Voices on BBC Radio 4 which won the Royal Historical Society’s Radio and Podcast prize as well as its overall Public History prize. She wrote Partition Voices: Untold British Voices, which is currently being adapted for the Donmar Warehouse with Tara Theatre. She also presents Three Pounds in My Pocket on BBC Radio 4, which is currently on its fifth series. It’s the first social history of British South Asians though first person testimony. She is also an executive producer of radio and television documentaries and presents the current affairs programme The Inquiry

JUANITA COX gained her PhD in 2013 from the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, and is a winner of the prestigious RE Bradbury Memorial Prize. She is currently the leading authority on the life and work of the Guyanese novelist, Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) and editor of Creole Chips and Other Writing (2018) – a compendium of his uncollected poems, plays, short stories and articles. Other publications include: ‘Buried in the Landscape: Edgar Mittelholzer’s Creative Gene(sis) / Geni(us), and Revolting Subtexts’ in Aje, L., Lacroix, T. and Misrahi-Barak, J. (eds) Reimagining the Guyanas (2019) and introductions to republished Peepal Tree editions of Mittelholzer’s Corentyne Thunder (2009) and The Life and Death of Sylvia (2010). She co-founded the ground-breaking series Guyana SPEAKS in 2017, an education and networking forum, which has become a key monthly event in the calendar of the London-based Guyanese diaspora. Dr Cox’s poetry has been published in anthologies of black womanhood including Songs of Yemaya (Diaspora Records, 2017) and in the international anthology of writings by women of African descent, New Daughters of Africa (Vintage, 2019). She was also an Associate Fellow of the London Metropolitan University, where she lectured for three years in Caribbean Studies and Black British History. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies and is working on a three-year AHRC-funded oral history project, ‘The Windrush Scandal in its Transnational and Commonwealth Context’.

NIRMAL PUWAR is Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick. She has a longstanding interest in bodies and space and works with a variety of methods, including oral history on site-specific interventions to reconceptualise space, nations and institutions, with a focus on museums. Her book Space Invaders (2004) has inspired a museum group by the same name https://mspace invaders.com/2020/11/08/women-of-colour-in-leadership/

SIMON STEPHENS is the Head of Publications and Events at the Museums Association and the editor of Museums Journal. He oversees the MA’s one-day conferences, annual conference and members events. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years and has contributed to a wide range of art and design publications.

SONIA SOLICARI is Director of the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum of the Home) in Hoxton. She has overseen the rebranding of the museum when its name changed while the site has been expanded and transformed with an £18.1 million capital development project. She has published widely on historic art and design and histories of the home.