Who we are

Row one, left to right: lecturer and video producer Maria Gabriella Ruban; designer and student placement holder Ang Li; artist and educator, Birungi Kawooya; heritage and cultural manager Esther Lisk-Carew

Row two, left to right: artist and Manchester Museum creative programmer Hattie Kongaunruan; illustrator and editor Helayna Adamou Lagos; product designer and VAGUE artistic director Karina So; artist and education specialist Kevin Dalton-Johnson

Row three, left to right: artist and DJ Lee Crocker; researcher and historian Sami Pinarbasi; artist and lecturer Sarah-Joy Ford, Young People’s Museum Collective member and Digital Futures intern Sibia Akhtar

Row four, left to right: In the Margins project coordinator Abir Tobji; historian and researcher Sonali Dhanpal; writer and filmmaker Shahireh Sharif; curator and writer Uthra Rajgopal

Row five, left to right: artist and Portico volunteer Thu Le Ha; artist and lecturer Andy Broadey; UEA doctoral student and museum consultant Benjamina Efua Dadzie; PROFORMA director and artist Chi Emecheta

Row six, left to right: poet and facilitator Elmi Ali; artist and Portico exhibitor Meha Hindocha; writer and former engineer Mo Ray; curator and Asia Art Activism director Annie Jael Kwan

For In the Margins, we have worked with the Portico Library’s Exhibitions Curator James Moss and Engagement Coordinator Apapat Jai-in Glynn, and with University of Manchester student placement holders Maia Mellentin, Tia Blythe, and Ruby Seddon-Wilson. Thanks to all the Library’s volunteers, staff, Trustees and members.

In the Margins has been made possible with grants from the Architectural Heritage Fund and the Zochonis Charitable Trust.