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Institute team

Francesca Panetta, Director

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Francesca Panetta, Director, AKO Storytelling Institute, UAL | Photograph: Eugénie Flochel

Christina Miariti, Institute Manager

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Christina Miariti, Institute Manager, AKO Storytelling Institute, UAL | Photograph: Eugénie Flochel

Natasha Freedman, Producer

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Natasha Freedman, Producer AKO Storytelling Institute|Image: Martin Hartley

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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