Kinways: Black Museology Podcast

Garrick Prayogg is the founder of the Cultural Diversity Network, offering support to people who are isolated and is a member of the Royal College of Psychology, helping with co-production and race equity. Garrick is passionate about social justice, equality, and inclusion. He has worked for various local authorities, including Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark, and Liverpool, and held board positions in organisations such as the Liverpool Commonwealth Association, representing Jamaican interests. Since 2018, following the Home Office Windrush scandal, he has been working with organisations, such as Justice for Windrush Generations, campaigning and raising awareness of the implications of the Windrush scandal.

Dr Juanita Cox is a Research Fellow working on the 3-year AHRC-funded project, ‘The Windrush Scandal in its Transnational and Commonwealth Context’, at the Institute of Historical Studies, University of London.  In 2017, she co-founded the ground-breaking series, Guyana SPEAKS, a key monthly event in the calendar of the London-based Guyanese diaspora.  She is a trustee on the board of the Oral History Society.

Miranda Lowe CBE is principal curator of crustacea at the Natural History Museum in London, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology and The Linnean Society. In 2020, Miranda was listed in the book 100 Great Black Britons and named in BBC Radio Four Women’s Hour Power List: Our Planet. Her work links science/art/nature to aid the public understanding of the natural world whilst volunteering her time as a STEM ambassador to mentor students and young people. Some of her published work discusses how museum collections are connected to colonialism and how to best deal with these difficult histories. It led to her receiving the Society for the History of Natural History President's award 2021. She is also Chair of arts & heritage organisation Culture&.

Taniah Simpson is currently Collections Services Manager at National Museums Liverpool. She leads the Collections Services team and has worked in museums for over 15 years in various collections management roles. Before her current role, she worked at Birmingham Museums Trust as a Collections and Storage Officer,  involved in a nationally funded project to review its science and industry collection. Taniah also spent six years at the British Museum in several collections roles, such as Storage Project Officer working on the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) project to rehouse the museum's ethnographic collection and as Assistant Collections Manager in the Asia department providing care and access to the Asia collections.

Taniah holds an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies from the University of Leicester and has recently gained a Diploma in Art Law and Collections Management from the Institute of Art Law. She is a trustee for the Charity Collections Trust, which helps museums work with the information that connects collections and audiences, and a member of Museum Detox, the network for people of colour working in the heritage sector.

Miles Greenwood was appointed Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire at Glasgow Museums in September 2020 on a two-year contract funded by Museums Galleries Scotland. His role involves planning and coordinating Glasgow Museums’ approach to addressing the legacies of Transatlantic Slavery and The British Empire; through new displays, collections research and collaboration. Miles is also currently Co-Chair of Museum Detox - a UK-wide network of people of colour working in the museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and the heritage sector.

Miles studied for an MA in Heritage Studies at Newcastle University, where he focussed on the role of Pan-Africanism in the decolonisation of the British Empire through a study of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester. He then returned to his home city of Manchester to take a research job with the cultural audience research agency - Morris Hargreaves McIntyre. Building on his work in audience research, he was appointed Visitor Studies Officer at the Paisley Museum as part of their redevelopment project team. He then worked briefly for the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights, an anti-racist charity based in Scotland, before taking up his current role with Glasgow Museums. He begins his new role as Lead Curator of Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in February 2023.

Madeline Heneghan is a Co-Director of Writing on the Wall. She became WoW’s first full-time Festival Director in 2006 and was ultimately responsible for delivering the annual month-long Festival and all WoW projects. Madeline has an MA in American Literature and History, and before joining WoW was the Action Plan Coordinator for The Black and Racial Minority Network. As a former Equalities Consultant, Madeline gained a thorough understanding of the needs and preferences of different communities and hard-to-reach groups. Her excellent community engagement skills and expertise in diversity and audience development have driven WoW’s growth and diverse audiences. Madeline has organised and led many festival events and projects. Madeline has written and published, with Emy Onuara, a book based on the findings of the Great War to Race Riots Creative Heritage Project. Madeline is now leading WoW's latest Creative Heritage Project based on the archives of Dorothy Kuya and working to shape WoW’s long-term strategy and development.

Professor Anthony Bogues, writer, scholar, and curator, is the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory at Brown University. His research interests focus on the intersections of political theory, intellectual history, cultural studies, literary theory, art history and critical theory, Caribbean and African politics, and Haitian, Caribbean, and African Art. Professor Bogues is the author of Caliban's Freedom, The Early Political Thought of CLR James(1997) Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals(2003), and Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire and Freedom (2010), and co-curated the critically acclaimed exhibition on Haitian art Reframing Haiti: Art, History, and Performativity. He was a member of the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice at Brown University (2003-2006) and Co-Convener with the Smithsonian on the Global Curatorial Project on Race, Slavery, and Colonialism (2017- present). He is coediting the unpublished manuscript of Syliva Wynter, Black Metamorphosis, and writing her intellectual biography. Professor Bogues is currently completing a volume of essays titled Caribbean Thought: History, Politics, and Aesthetics(Ian Randle Press, 2023).

Dr Njabulo Chipangura is currently the Curator of Living Culture at Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester. As a curator of Living Cultures, he is responsible for more than 25,000 objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, research, and forming relationships and collaborations.

A key curatorial responsibility of the role is giving collections a biography through comprehensive provenance research - as most of the objects were looted and reduced to mundane 'aesthetic things' through acts of colonial violence associated with the expansion of the British empire. He is currently involved in a joint collaborative research project with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) on the Return of Cultural Heritage Programme (RoCH).

His work focuses on decolonising the museum through co-production, co-curatorship, and collaboration with source and diaspora communities. Reconfiguring and re-writing stories of objects within their secular or ceremonial uses before dispossession. Dr Chipangura is a board member of the Collections Committee (COMCOL) – International Council of Museums. His first book, Museums as Agents for Social Change: Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum - was published by Routledge in April 2021.