Melanie Abrahams, FRSA HonFRSL has been making multidisciplinary projects for 25 years, as a curator, consultant, a former artist's agent and mentor. As founder of Renaissance One, she has pushed for greater diversity and used her oratory and ideas to develop wellbeing spaces and community progression as well as to work closely with Caribbean, British and global voices including Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Robert Antoni, Shivanee Ramlochan, John Agard, Grace Nichols, Amiri Baraka, Bernardine Evaristo, Anthony Joseph, Caryl Phillips, Malika Booker and Gary Younge.