Briana Pegado FRSA is the Creative Director of Fringe of Colour Films, a film festival that supports Black, POC, and Queer Creatives across Scotland and internationally. She is Co-Director of We Are Here Scotland CIC, an organisation that platforms Black and POC creatives in Scotland. She was Executive Director of Creative Edinburgh and a Co-Director of Creative Informatics until November 2020.

She is currently Chair of YWCA Scotland - the Young Women's Movement, an intergenerational movement that supports young women's leadership. She holds an MA in Sustainable Development from the University of Edinburgh and explores what post-capitalist institutions of care in the creative industries look like in the modern world.

Briana will be taking part in our Creative Futures Panel at 1pm on Wednesday 9th June.