emmanuelleon

Emmanuel Leon

PROFILE
emmanuel.leon.uk@gmail.com

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I am an anthropologist, project manager, art-based researcher, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. My work focuses on heritage and community-based projects that amplify the voices of global majority communities in the diaspora, promoting healing and moving beyond precarity in our personal and professional lives. My research focuses on working with artists and makers, particularly looking at the process of constructing political personhood in the diaspora, as well as material forms of resisting memory suppression within and in the aftermath of war.

PORTFOLIO
-Academic Work
-Visual and Plastic Work
-Public Engagement
-Management and Creative Direction
-Written and Edited Work

Education

MSc Visual Material and Museum Anthropology
University of Oxford
2024 - 2025

BA Social Anthropology with Human Rights
University of Essex
2020 - 2023

Diploma Program of the International Baccalaureate
Euroamerican College
2018 - 2019

Employment

Advisory Board Members
Noria Collective
April 2025 - Present

Translation Project Manager
Premium Linguistics
June 2024 - September 2024

Head of Digital Communications
UCL Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory
April 2024 - August 2024

Communication and Media Assistant
Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex
February 2022 - May 2022

Skills

Project management - application of DEI initiatives - social mobility - presenting - active listening - translation - public relations - curating in living spaces - use of Adobe Creative Suite - and use of Canvas.

Exhibitions

(Upcoming) Tracing dreams with Alasitas across Peru

Curated by Emmanuel Leon in collaboration with Franklin Mamani and Maribel Quispe.
At the University of Cambridge Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology’s Digital Laboratory.
September 2025

Drift In

Curated by Paola Esposito and the Anthropology Art Collective.
At the School of Anthropology of the University of Oxford.
Oxford, United Kingdom
June - August 2025

Ways of healing: Sentipensar

Curated by Emmanuel Leon and Daniela de la Torre.
At the Garage Imaginaries.
Oxford, United Kingdom.
June 2025

Susurros (Whispers)

Curated by Emmanuel Leon, Grecia Mendoza, Julio Cesar Reyes and Raul Loli.
At EuroIdiomas.
Lima, Perú
October 2019

Awards

Conference Presentation Award
School of Anthropology,
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
2025

Platinum Big Essex Award
University of Essex,
United Kingdom
2023

Americas Regional Scholarship
University of Essex,
United Kingdom
2020

Press

‘Essex University students pay respects to Ukraine with vigil’
Daily Gazette Essex
by Macaully Moffat
2023

Last Updated 24.10.31

Portfolio

Visual and Plastic Work

Graphic, plastic, analogue and digital work.

Management and creative direction

Work focused on creative project direction, social mobilisation and digital communication

Written and edited work

Published creative writing, blogs and columns.

Academic Work

Published academic written work, volunteering and support.

Public Engagement

Workshops, exhibitions, curating and presenting.