Samenua Sesher is a creative, coach and culture management consultant.
She started her career in theatre and has worked with Nottingham Playhouse, the National Theatre and Ambassadors Theatre Group. She has also worked in television, community arts and heritage.
As a cross-artform producer, Samenua has experience of delivering multi-million-pound programmes and has fed into national cultural policy; set up and run a local authority culture service and lectured.
She was a 2008/09 Clore Fellow and was awarded an OBE for Services to the Arts in January 2017 and was recognised in the New Year’s Honours List in 2018.
Samenua is a People's Palace Project (PPP) Associate and member of the Advisory Board for The Art of Cultural Exchange. PPP is supporting and partnering on her on the Museum of Colour, exploring the creative journeys of British people of colour.