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ExploreTheArch's director team comprises eight members of which five are non-executive. A SENCO coordinator, youth worker, mental health nurse, community arts practice and media student and engineer inform with their skills and insights supporting the various strands of ExploreTheArch’s creative innovations. The four executive directors directly action social change and pioneer new artistic approaches in the collectives national and international arts and heritage projects. Four members of the team are early career team artists.

Yasmin Aishah is an early career visual artist, performer and community arts practitioner with a specialism in body positivity who is the leader of ExploreTheArch’s early career team. An artist of mixed race heritage, Yasmin brings her insights of growing up in St Leonards-on-Sea (sister town to Hastings) to the director team as well as perspectives of education system that did not support her learning needs. She is a creative pioneer committed to activating social change through her arts practice and a working director on the team.

Paul Beadle is an engineer whose sculpture embraces mechanical and electronic engineering techniques. He brings these creative insights to the team as a non-executive director.

Gail Borrow is the leader of ExploreTheArch's director team and the collective. Her arts practice spans pioneering community engagement approaches, installation and theatre making and reflects the South East Asian puppetry tradition influences she researched as a postgraduate. She is a leader in experiential theatre in the UK, works internationally on collaborative creative projects empowering under-represented voices and innovates creative engagement programmes activating social change. She sits on the advisors director board of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.

Sam Brown is a multi-instrumentalist building a career as a solo violinist, teacher and performer with many ensembles including Nu Civilisation Orchestra. Sam grew up in Hastings often as the only child of colour in her year group and is now leading workshops as a facilitator in which children can find themselves reflected. Sam works with artists in other creative disciplines on outdoor art projects, installations, theatre performance and exhibitions.

Danny Coombs is a youth worker with twenty year’s experience of working in education and community settings in inner and greater London area. He brings these valuable insights to the team as a non-executive director.

Rebecca Coombs is a SENCO coordinator at two south London Primary schools. She brings her extensive knowledge of supporting diverse learners through twenty year of work experience and specialist training to the team as a non-executive director.

Maya Coombs identifies as an early career community arts practitioner and media student with autism and neurodiverse diagnoses. She has brought insights as a working member of the early career team and has just become a non-executive board member as she moves to San Diego for a year of study, from where she will be able to share perspectives of a city strongly shaped by its border and migration identity.

Marwan Mohammed is a clinical psychology nurse with 40 years of work experience across the mental health sector. Marwan bringing his perspectives of actioning social change in an environment under-serving minority heritages and his experience of his international family’s roots in Baghdad and Hastings. He has a non-executive role on the director team.

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