Our team
Aditi Anand
Artistic Director
Catherine Humphries
Development Support Manager
Daniela Zaharieva
Digital Content and Design Officer
Daria Valova-Lynch
Research Fellow in Curatorial Practice and Civic Engagement
Dhakshi
Development Manager
Emily Miller
Partnerships Director
Frances
Public Engagement Coordinator
Georgina Lewis
Development Director
Ghaf Tajmohammad
Curatorial Project Manager
Harriet Costello
Public Engagement Manager
Katy
Retail Manager
Liberty Melly
Head of Learning
Lucy May Maxwell
Collections Researcher
Matthew Plowright
Communications and Engagement Director
Mona Jamil
Head of Civic Engagement
Nanda
Researcher and Public Engagement Assistant
Rob Safar
Digital Product Manager
Tia Shah
Learning Manager
Daria Valova-Lynch
Research Fellow in Curatorial Practice and Civic Engagement
Daria co-leads on the Migration Museum’s work to co-produce oral histories, artworks and object-based narratives that contribute to future displays. Daria previously worked as Migration Network Coordinator, leading national knowledge-sharing programmes.
Alongside her work at the Migration Museum, Daria is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Migrant Futures Institute. Her work focuses on newcomer inclusion, multicultural heritage, and urban belonging, with particular attention to how migration is represented—and omitted—within national and local heritage spaces. Over the past decade, she has collaborated with migrant and refugee communities across the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Azerbaijan, India, and the United States. The child of migrants from the Soviet Union to the United States and a migrant to Britain herself, Daria brings both scholarly and lived perspectives to her work, grounded in a commitment to inclusive, ethical, and community-led heritage practice.