I am a passionate museum educator and programme manager with extensive experience in the museum sector and third sector organizations in the UK and across the Middle East. I bring 13 years of experience as a project manager through my work at the British Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UNESCO, and Syria Trust for Development. I am skilled in public engagement with science and heritage, community outreach and engagement, co-production of community projects, building collaborative partnerships within and outside the museum sector, working collaboratively and equitably with diverse audiences, and embedding ED&I in museum public programming. 

In my current role at the British Museum, I  lead a national programme that co-curates with youth cultural projects that represent their local culture. Before joining the British Museum, I worked at the Natural History Museum, as a Learning Volunteer Engagement Manager ,recruiting and training diverse volunteers who deliver engaging and inspiring object-based learning to children, youth, and adults. Prior to this, I worked at Kew Gardens as an Education Officer, managing a pioneering project that co-curated with pupils and their families, school museums that represented the pupils’ cultural diversity. Before moving to the UK, I worked in the Middle East developing and delivering pioneering projects that improved access to and quality of education for children and youth. This included working at UNESCO, managing the entire reform and training of all science and maths teachers in Iraq; co-designing the first interactive science discovery centre in Damascus; developing and managing the first whole-school environmental education initiative in Aleppo, and developing a project to teach Syrian children in refugee camps recovery techniques from trauma. 

I am a passionate advocate for the need and importance of increasing diversity within the UK museum sector, removing barriers of engagement with under-served communities across the UK, and creating more inclusive and equitable narratives on history and science in museums. I Embedded ED&I in all public programming including exhibitions, public events, and outreach programmes, with interest and experience in multicultural science and decolonization of museum narratives.

I have a personal interest in how the history of science is narrated in European museums and have founded "Multicultural Science: Inspiring Stories from the Islamic Civilisation” as an inclusive space to share stories of scientific multicultural encounters during the Islamic Civilization, challenging a dominating Eurocentric view of science in the museum sector in Europe."