Institute team
Francesca Panetta, Director
Christina Miariti, Institute Manager
Natasha Freedman, Producer
AKO Storytelling Institute Associates
Maruša Levstek, Story Associate
Mora McLagan, Communications Advisor
Advisory board
Alice Sachrajda, UK Program Officer and UK Head of Cultural Strategy, Unbound Philanthropy
Amanda Michel, Sustainable Business Development Consultant
Bambo Soyinka, Professor of Story and Chair of the Research Centre for Transcultural Creativity and Education
Beadie Finzi, Co-founding Director, Doc Society
Charlie Waterhouse, Creative Strategist, co-founder of Absurd Intelligence
Katerina Cizek, Co-founder, Executive Producer, and Artistic Director of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab
Luke Tryl, UK Director at More in Common
Patricia Aufderheide, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media & Social Impact, American University
Sue Tibballs, Independent Consultant and Convenor of the Charity Reform Group
Zamzam Ibrahim, Co-Founder, Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK)
UAL steering group
Alisdair Aldous, Director of Strategy and Knowledge Exchange
Alison Prendiville, Professor Research, LCC
Amanda Crawley Jackson, Associate Dean Knowledge Exchange, LCC
Kate Pelen, Creative Director, Climate Emergency Network
Noleen Robertson, Associate General Counsel
Pratap Rughani, Professor, Associate Dean of Research
Rebecca Munro, Associate Director Communication
Trevor Keeble, Pro Vice Chancellor - Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise
Zey Suka-Bill, Dean of Screen School, LCC