Our team
Aditi Anand
Artistic Director
Alice
Gallery Supervisor
Catherine Humphries
Development Support Manager
Cym
Learning and Volunteer Coordinator
Daniela Zaharieva
Digital Content and Design Officer
Daria Valova-Lynch
Migration Network Coordinator
Dhakshi
Development Manager
Emily Miller
Partnerships Director
Frances
Gallery Supervisor
Georgina Lewis
Development Director
Ghaf Tajmohammad
Curatorial Project Manager
Harriet
Events and Front of House Manager
Jason Page
Operations Manager & Community Engagement Programmer
Katy
Retail Manager
Kimberley
Gallery Supervisor and Digital Content Assistant
Liberty Melly
Head of Learning
Matthew Plowright
Communications and Engagement Director
Mira Joshi
Development Manager, Major Donors
Mona Jamil
Museum Manager
Nanda
Gallery Supervisor
Rob Safar
Digital Product Manager
Sophie Henderson
CEO
Sue McAlpine
Curatorial Advisor
Tia Shah
Learning Officer
Daria Valova-Lynch
Migration Network Coordinator
As the Migration Network Coordinator, Daria programmes knowledge-sharing events aimed at bringing together heritage practitioners, researchers, educators, and those with lived migration and refugee experiences to increase focus on migration and intersecting themes across Britain’s museum and heritage sector. The child of migrants from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a migrant to Britain herself, Daria is driven in her work to find solutions to issues of inclusion, representation, and accessibility through community-oriented approaches. Over the past decade, Daria has collaborated with migrant and refugee communities on creative and academic projects in the United States, Austria, Germany, Azerbaijan, India, and now the United Kingdom.
In addition to her role at the Migration Museum, Daria is completing a PhD in History and Heritage Studies at the University of York, funded by the AHRC. Her doctoral project, Redefining ‘Yorkness’: Provincialising Britain’s Migrant and Refugee Heritage through Community-Based Participatory Research in York, England, is an ethnographic approach to decolonising the city’s heritage and heritage industry. Daria holds a MSt in Modern History from the University of Oxford. When she’s not writing or organising, you’ll likely find Daria knitting and connecting with others through craft.