Aakash Bharania

Aakash (they/​them) enjoys shapeshifting as an artist, educator, and cultural producer. They started their career as an LGBTQ youth worker, but over the last few years their work has been focused on diversifying grant-making, including their time working as a Relationship Manager for Diversity at Arts Council England and with other independent funders.

They find joy in collaborating with grassroots groups to tap into the fountain to redistribute power and resources that can support cultivating and embodying resilience to sustain queer, disabled and BIPOC communities. They are also a co-creator of misery, a creative mental health community and sober party for queer, trans, intersex, black indigenous, people of colour focused on harm reduction, healing justice, and cultivating community care.