About our Guests
Elikya Kandot
Elikya Kandot is a director-curator of Boulogne-sur-Mer’s museums rethinking museum practices to revise their African collections. She advocates for breaking down traditional categories like "fine arts" and "ethnography" to create more inclusive collection. Her work is part of a broader reflection on "de-exoticizing" perspectives and decolonizing museums, especially in relation to African heritage objects.
Jacqueline Roberts
Jacqueline Roberts is the Chief Executive and co-founder of St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2nd Generation, an African & Caribbean Heritage organisation based in Buckinghamshire. SV2G has created new forms of learning through arts and heritage projects with inter-generational audiences including addressing inequalities faced by African and Caribbean communities. Jacqueline was the project coordinator for the diaspora participants in the project ‘War and Resistance in the Caribbean: Monument’s in St Paul’s Cathedral.’
Dr Renie Chow Choy
Dr Renie Chow Choy is a historian, lecturer, and Collections Community Engagement Manager at St Paul's Cathedral, where she has managed the production of two trails: 'The East India Company at St Paul's Cathedral' and 'War and Resistance in the Caribbean: Monuments in St Paul's Cathedral'. She sits on several committees responsible for the conservation of the Church of England's historic buildings.
Asher Craig
Asher Craig is a former Bristol Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Bristol. As Deputy Mayor, she led Bristol city's response to COVID-19, focusing on increasing vaccine uptake in marginalized groups and addressing health inequalities, racial and social justice, and sustainable development. She created and established the Bristol Equality Charter which has been signed by over 300 organisations in the city, and the Mayoral Commissions on Domestic Violence, Race Equality, and Disability. Asher Craig is also the founder and Chair of the Bristol Legacy Foundation which is leading the city’s response to reparatory justice and legacy building .
Olivette Otele
Olivette Otele, Distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, University of London, specialises in colonial and post-colonial history, as well as the histories of people of African descent. A leading authority on the intersections of history, memory, and geopolitics regarding French and British colonial legacies, she became the first Black woman to hold a professorial chair in History in the United Kingdom. Otele is the author of African Europeans: An Untold History (2020).
