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

CV
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

AwardsConference 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
Management and Creative Direction

Jourls Press

A student-run and early-career international press with reach over 60 countries, writing about their realities and promoting interdisciplinary and critical thinking. 

I lead the creative and administrative management of the press and our academic journal, “Interdisciplinary Concepts”. The Press and Journal ran for two years with the support and hard work of over 20 volunteers. We published:

-Columns

-Reviews

-Interviews

-Independent Articles

-Academic issues
    - Power (2021)
    - Development (2022)
    - Justice(2022)




U Thant Peacemaker Corps

A student-led University of Essex initiative focused on promoting social cohesion, promoting peaceful mediation and project management support for projects surrounding local and international community work. 

I joined the initiative as the social media executive and was then elected president. Some of the activities and projects I supported organising were:

- Co-organised and co-led a Vigil: In memory of the Victims of War in Ukraine 

-Supported the organisation of the fundraising project: ‘Marc’s House’, supporting children in a state of homelessness and ex-child soldiers.

- Community Activity: Letters to Strangers ‘Community Spirit’.

-Organised fundraising: Online Concert #EstamoscontigoPeru.

-Supported organising and chairing the Online Conference: Violence: The Conference

- Online Conference: Police Brutality Against Peaceful Protesters.