Lena Nahlous is an experienced CEO, producer, curator, artistic director and facilitator with a long-term commitment to equity in the arts and creative sectors. Lena is currently the Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast. She has over 20 years-experience in arts, cultural and media organisations where she has developed artist brokerage and training programs focusing on artists, communities and creatives from culturally diverse, refugee and migrant backgrounds and young people. Lena’s work has had a strong focus on Western Sydney, particularly in her role as Executive Director of Information and Cultural Exchange for 11 years where she established initiatives like the Arab Film Festival, Switch digital media centre and Artfiles, an artist employment and brokerage program. Lena’s recent projects include the Fair Play capacity building initiative, the Creative Equity Toolkit, Pacesetters and I am Not a Virus.
Lena is among the co-directors of This Is Who We Are.
She has organised the hiphop salon between female hiphop artists of colour in Australia. Details here.
