Staff
Levi Naidu-Mitchell
Head of Learning and Community Engagement
Levi Naidu-Mitchell is an interdisciplinary artist, currently based in London. Her practice centres around the Carnivalesque, its dynamism as an artistic medium and the plethora of ways it can be translated as a tool for positive, vibrant elevation. Workshop facilitation, collaboration, community, site specific and socially engaged projects are all fundamental to her creations and she deems it essential to work intergenerationally, always considering the living archive, ancestry and the legacies that we produce through our art.
Sophie Gregg
Transformation Lead
Sophie Gregg is an independent consultant working across the arts and heritage sector. Sophie has leadership-level experience in the delivery of National Lottery Heritage Fund development projects, strategic planning and policy making, governance advice and crisis management, and the creation and oversight of far-reaching cross-sectoral philanthropic and arts-based stakeholder engagement initiatives.
Sophie previously worked at Tate where she negotiated and oversaw delivery of a major international training agreement in best-practice museum management. Before moving into the arts world, her consultancy roles have spanned work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Royal Court, and The Week magazine, amongst others. Sophie started her career as a BBC journalist in Asia before working for the UK diplomatic service for eleven years. She has served as a trustee for Hostage International.
Proudly based in Peckham for over 10 years, Sophie is passionate about working for organisations with a social and creative community purpose.
Georgia Hardcastle
Arts Award Advisor
Georgia Hardcastle is a community artist and theatre maker based in London. In her role at Peckham Platform, Georgia designs and delivers Arts Award programmes in schools that respond to and connect with Peckham Platform’s projects, leading with curiosity and encouraging young people’s self-expression through social art.
Georgia is Co-Executive Director of Matipo Arts CIC and her creative practice focuses on collaborative process, play, personal development and ownership.
Brian Maina
NLHF Project Manager
Brian Maina is a British-Kenyan curator, creative producer, and artist based in London. With a purposeful focus on making art, history, and ideas accessible, Brian supports artists across various disciplines in creating contemporary works that challenge, reconcile, or reframe histories, striving for a more equitable future for all.
Trustees & Advisors
Leslie Ramos
Advisor
Leslie Ramos is a leading specialist in philanthropy and development within the arts, having advised philanthropists, collectors, and institutions around the world for over a decade. Her background spans roles at Royal Academy of Arts, Christie’s, The Art Newspaper, Teatro La Fenice, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Additionally, she serves in voluntary capacities at Delfina Foundation, Artangel and Peckham Platform, and lectures on philanthropy and museum studies. Leslie is the author of Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take, published by Lund Humphries, 2023.
Sade English
Trustee
Sade English is a London-based curator and conceptual lead in events and programmes. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The ANTICLONE, a conceptual events and arts platform and gallery that showcases an unparalleled selection of unique, non-conformist and multidisciplinary artists from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ and POC communities. With over a decade of experience, Sade has delivered high-impact, bespoke events across corporate conferences, large-scale festivals, concerts, exhibitions and art programming. Her exhibitions have been shown at Soho Square, Zari Gallery and Crypt Gallery, where her ornate, instantly recognisable curatorial style stands out.
Diego Palencia
Trustee
Diego Palencia has lived in Peckham for the past 10 years and loves the cultural and musical scene of south east London. He has a great wealth of experience in financial management of small and medium organizations including a large stint working for The Financial Times. Diego is a chartered accountant (ACMA CGMA). Other areas of interest include tennis, the Sea and innovative music.
Catriona Whiteford
Trustee
Catriona Whiteford is a curator, artist and writer based in London. Currently at Hayward Gallery Touring, she curates major thematic interdisciplinary and monographic national touring exhibitions and programmes across the UK. Notable collaborative projects include British Art Show, After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024, and Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles. She acts as Co-Chair of Generator Projects’ Board of Trustees and has held positions at Tate Britain & Tate Modern, Freelands Foundation, National Galleries of Scotland and Stills, Scotland’s Centre for Photography. Previously Co-Director of Coup Red and Curator of the Freelands Emerging Artist Programme, her work focuses on commissioning new work and collaborating with artists throughout the UK and internationally. She is a recipient of the International Curator Residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin and Arts Council England DYCP Award.
Emily Druiff
Advisor and Founder
Emily Druiff is Peckham Platform’s founding Director, leading the organisation for its first decade as it achieved Arts Council England National Portfolio Status and established its commitment to social practice. Emily continues to have a close relationship with Peckham Platform as an advisor alongside her independent work as a social arts researcher, consultant and coach.
Zelie Walker-Noble
Trustee
Peckham native Zelie Walker-Noble is an independent art advisor working with collectors around the world. With over 15 years’ experience in the art industry, she previously worked at an international art advisory in London, a contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong, and for more than a decade at global auction house Christie’s, based between its European and Asian headquarters. A specialist in client strategy and the global art market, Zelie has helped drive ongoing client engagement with large-scale high-profile events and charity fundraisers. She has also curated initiatives tailored to cultivating individual relationships. As Trustee, Zelie will bring her in-depth knowledge and extensive networks to guide and support the fundraising and capital projects for Peckham Platform. She is a patron of non-profit arts organisations in Hong Kong and London, and is passionate about giving back to the communities of her home town, Peckham. Zelie studied Fine Art at Leeds University and York University, Toronto.
Kirsty Stober
Advisor
Kirsty Stober is a Youth Platform alumna who worked as a producer in the first-ever Festival of Audacity and on the programme for Chinese New Year at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. She runs independent events geared towards showcasing Black entrepreneurs in Birmingham. Kirsty has worked in communications since graduating in PR, media, and events and now works with us as a PR specialist.