Amy Wright Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Developed audits on a variety of social issues within Bankside • Especially focused on the issue of homelessness, analysing the difficulties face by homeless communities in the area as well as noting what resources were available to help them• Most of this work is done independently from home so requires a level of commitment and self-motivation • Paused during the pandemic

London

• Joined a busy department store at peak time during Christmas, requiring me to quickly learn and adapt to a variety of tasks• Undertook regular overtime and extra activities • Dealt with a variety of customers, going the extra mile when stock couldn’t be found • During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic I undertook work for Waitrose to help facilitate the partnership in maintaining food supplies for the public, including working under stressful conditions.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Instructed and engaged visitors to interact with old maps, books and photographs within the archive. • Independently managed and maintained important archives the artist brought over from Ghana, as well as managing the archive section of the gallery space.• I had the opportunity to link people to past connections as well as being privileged to hear their stories from Ghana; some families learnt about their forgotten histories through the archives

Manchester Metropolitan Area

• Led group discussions between 20 students to plan and execute student takeovers in response to the changing exhibitions of the gallery, working collectively to create the event.• Effectively coordinated between the clashing interests of a large group of students by balancing and compromising between ideas. • Simultaneously liaised between different donor and interest groups to plan long-term large-scale events, as well as developing small weekly workshops. • Successfully negotiated, and won, £300 extra funding from the Students Union funding programme. • Took an initial event idea to fruition, as we executed a successful student takeover of the whole gallery; including dancers, speakers, musicians and performance art.

Master Of Science - Ms, International Development: Poverty, Conflict And Reconstruction, Merit

Activities and Societies: Head course Rep. Whitworth Gallery Archivist. Team Leader for Planning and Managing Development- project.

Bsocsci, Politics And International Relations, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Peer mentor leading to recognition as an advanced mentor. Student producer role at the Whitworth gallery.