PROJECT MANAGER
Rachel (she/her/they) is a producer, grant writer and fundraising specialist based in Athens and the UK. Rachel works with individual artists and organisations to provide mentoring and strategic development for projects including 1:1 advice through to large scale organisational development.
In 2014, Rachel co-founded Wyldwood Arts, a not-for-profit specialising in socially conscious creative projects, focusing on intergenerational communities and cross sector partners in and around the Southwest, UK.
Rachel has held various non-executive roles including Director for DragonBird Theatre Company, Founding Director for Saffron Records and a Board Member for Hijinx Theatre Company, Travelling Light Theatre Company, Off the Record Bristol, Basement Studios and The Orchard Trust.
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Eloise Fornieles is a British artist based between Athens and Rome, working in video, sound, and performance. Using monsters, vocal masks and soundscapes, Fornieles’ work engages with storytelling, alternative gender narratives and queer space.
Fornieles’ PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, researches the role of the voice in the generation of queer space. She has delivered papers at the Slade School of Fine Art, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, The Hungarian University of Fine Art, and was awarded a bursary to carry out her research at Yale University in 2020. She is currently a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the British School of Rome.
Fornieles has performed, screened and exhibited in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Madrid, Lausanne, Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, London, and Beijing.
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Ben Eastham is editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism and co-founder of the London-based literary magazine The White Review. In addition to his writing as an art and literary critic, he is the author of books including The Imaginary Museum (September 2020) and editor of The White Review Anthology (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), Before or After, at the Same Time (Hauser & Wirth, 2019), and Luis Camnitzer: One Number Is Worth One Word (Sternberg/e-flux, 2020). He is on the curatorial team for the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023), and his writing has been widely published in the United States and Europe.
Viki has over 15 years experience in the fields of gender, migration, and development. She has worked with international agencies, including the UN, and local NGOS in South Asia, Europe, and Africa. Her work has spanned advocacy, empowerment, gender equality, and refugee emergency response. As Head of Grassroots at Women for Refugee Women, Viki led the charity’s pandemic response, offering support and empowerment programmes to a network of 350 asylum-seeking and refugee women.
Viki holds a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS and is currently working on a forthcoming book based on her ethnographic research with asylum-seeking, refugee, and migrant women in Greece.
TRUSTEE
Hailing from New York City, Zoë started her career putting books on The New York Times Bestseller List as the Director of Marketing and Publicity for publisher Rugged Land. She later worked as a chef in restaurants and on television before opening her own restaurant, Zoë, in Manhattan. In 2015, she moved to Greece, volunteering as a chef with refugee organisation Khora and working on strategies of food distribution.
A mental-health worker, Zoë has been mentoring women for over ten years. With an aim to specialise in clinical work for mental health and well-being, Zoë is studying Psychology at Deree American College of Greece.
Zoë is currently developing a social justice initiative responding to the hunger crisis in the United States based on the provision of healthy meals to those on a low income.