Margaret Gorman
Chair
Margaret A. Gorman was appointed Chair of Wac Arts in January 2025, having joined the Board as a trustee in 2021. She is a senior workforce strategy and transformation leader with more than 25 years of global experience across HR, finance and organisational change.
Following 18 years at Citigroup, Margaret now works at the Metropolitan Police, where she leads strategic workforce planning. Her work focuses on helping complex organisations understand how work is changing and align their people, capabilities, data and technology to respond. She brings particular expertise in workforce strategy and analytics, organisational transformation and the future of work.
Alongside her professional career, Margaret has extensive experience in arts and non-profit governance. In addition to chairing Wac Arts, she serves as Treasurer of Deptford X and maintains an active practice as an artist and writer. She regularly exhibits her work and is the author and illustrator of All Animals Count, a children’s picture book created in partnership with a conservation charity to raise funds for threatened ecosystems.
Margaret holds an MBA from The Wharton School and an MA from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Pomona College. An American who has lived, worked and studied across the US, Germany, Hong Kong and Japan, she is now based in London, where her professional, governance and creative lives reflect a longstanding interest in people, culture and how organisations and communities adapt to change.
Swag Ganguly
Vice Chair
Swag is the Vice Chair and the Community Trustee at Wac Arts and is a Belsize Park resident. He is deeply committed to Wac Arts’ vision of empowering young people through performing arts and in ensuring that the Wac Arts’ iconic building remains relevant and accessible to the local community.
Swag is a partner at Evercore, an independent investment bank, and has over 25 years experience in raising finance for corporates, private equity firms, infrastructure sponsors and governments. He was previously a managing director at Rothschild & Co and qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC. Swag has a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
He supports a number of charities and is a patron at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Horticultural Society. In his spare time, he enjoys collecting art, gardening, football and music. He is a member of Boyesh, a band that performs regularly at Wac Arts during the Dusserah and Diwali festivals.
Betty Williams Singh
Betty is a Creative Practitioner, Access Specialist, and Project Manager with over a decade of experience across heritage, live events, theatre, television, and youth arts. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, her practice is rooted in inclusive programming, public engagement, and creative leadership. Her career has spanned producing heritage and cultural events, teaching in schools and conservatoires, and working on youth programmes at organisations including the Roundhouse and National Youth Theatre, and freelance work with the National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, ITV, and Ambassador Theatre Group. Having previously led Wac Arts’ Spark and Ignite programmes, she brings both broad sector experience and first-hand knowledge of the organisation to her role on the Board of Trustees.
Beyond her professional practice, Betty’s relationship with the arts is rooted in curiosity, play, and community. She can usually be found hiking, getting far too into character during a D&D campaign, seeking out live performance, or on a quest for a decent cup of tea. At heart, she believes the arts should be a playground for joy, ideas, and genuine community, a place where people can experiment, connect, and feel a bit of belonging. It’s exactly that spirit that she loves bringing back to Wac Arts.
Aradhna Tayal Leach
Aradhna is a strategic consultant and leader in media, events and engagement. She brings together extensive experience in the broadcasting, arts and technology sectors, with a passion for industry development to better reflect, represent and influence society.
In 2022 Aradhna was appointed Director of the OKRE Summit, a new flagship annual event bringing together the entertainment industry and the charity sector for greater social and cultural impact in entertainment content. Formerly at the BBC, Aradhna is Director of Radio TechCon, the UK’s audio and radio technology conference. She is a Fellow and former trustee of The Radio Academy, committee member of the Royal Television Society, London and former Chair of the Jury for their student awards.
Aradhna has led events, initiatives and strategies across the creative industries. Her portfolio includes BBC Shorts, Creative Cities Convention, the Film and TV Charity, the Worldwide Association for Women Journalists and Writers, AudioUK, Sadler’s Wells and the National Theatre.
Rebekah Keane
Rebekah is the Senior Programmes Manager at London Youth, leading a diverse portfolio of pan-London initiatives that support young people’s personal, social, physical and mental wellbeing development. A youth sector development specialist, she partners with community organisations to deliver impactful programmes underpinned by capacity building, ensuring grassroots groups have the tools, training, and networks they need to thrive.
Before joining London Youth, Rebekah’s career spanned both the sports and arts-based youth sectors, with a strong foundation in applied theatre. She has supported young people through youth work in community settings, as well as teaching in secondary schools. This blend of youth engagement expertise continues to shape her approach to programme design, using positive activities as powerful tools for self-expression, skill-building, and systemic change.
Rebekah’s own journey as a young Londoner was shaped by the support of trusted adults in a variety of grassroots youth settings. She is passionate about ensuring the next generation has access to the same safe spaces, opportunities, and encouragement that made a difference in her life.
nicola clements
Nicola Clements is a theatre leader with specialisms in fundraising, change management and artist-centred strategy. Her career has taken her from fundraising and events at the Royal Shakespeare Company to executive leadership roles with Camden People’s Theatre and most recently the Gate, where she oversaw a major transition from a venue-based operation to a producing model.
Nicola believes that silliness is a highly underrated component of business success and rarely gets through a conversation without a bird or boat metaphor. She will also probably knit something for you at some point. As a trustee for Wac Arts and Chair of the People & Culture committee, Nicola is proud to champion the brilliant people who open up access to the arts for the young people of Camden and beyond.
lAO LEE
Lao first came across Wac Arts when she decided to try out an Aerial class for the first time in 2019. Not only did she fall in love with it, but she saw the importance that Wac Arts holds for young people across London.
Lao has a background working in regeneration and community placemaking, arts funding, and theatre. She also freelances as a writer for Theatre and TV., with a passion for championing underrepresented voices and increased access to the arts.
When not working, Lao loves being at the piano, doing a jigsaw puzzle, or trying to pet the (often unfriendly) neighbourhood cats!
Mark James-Matthews
Mark is a grants manager with Freelands Foundation, a visual art education charity and funder, where he works to support art organisations in exploring how teaching and art can work together to imagine and build the future. With a background in finance and investment, Mark has previously worked in private equity in the renewable energy sector, as well as spending almost a decade in the antiquarian book trade. He holds a Master in Applied Finance from Monash University, with a focus on risk management.
Originally from Australia, Mark has previously volunteered with education charity UN Youth Australia, delivering school programmes, conferences, and competitions for young people exploring themes of human rights, interconnectedness, and democracy. Mark is a frequent theatregoer, and he’s passionate about the role creative education can play in young people’s lives, the value of art and creativity in society, and the role of arts organisations in making space for expression and exploration.
Miriam Feldman
Miriam is a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she specialises in Technology and Digital strategy. Her work spans large-scale digital transformations across sectors, including public sector, travel and consumer goods. Alongside her core consulting work, she has supported the development of Arts & Culture as an industry focus within BCG’s London office, providing strategic support for UK arts organisations.
Originally from Boston, MA, Miriam holds a BA from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and an MSc from the London School of Economics in Applied Social Data Science, where her research focused on cultural capital and cultural institutions as sites of social connection.
Miriam is committed to supporting Wac Arts in its mission to empower young people through the arts and provide a vibrant, inclusive space for learning, creativity, and community. In her spare time, she can usually be found in the ceramics studio or exploring the coffee shops and green spaces of North London.
Megan Taylor
Megan is currently a civil servant in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which she joined in 2023. She has worked across policy, strategy and finance within the civil service, with a particular focus on spending within the culture and creative sectors. She is currently Head of Honours & Governance for the department. This move into the civil service followed ten years of work in arts and culture, including within higher education, charity and commercial sectors. In 2017 she qualified from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Masters in Applied Theatre and Megan spent three years working at The Big House, a charity which supports marginalised young people with experience of the care system, the justice system or homelessness.
Alongside her work, Megan is currently studying at Metanoia Institute to qualify as a Psychotherapist. When not working or studying, Megan can always be found in the West End, losing herself in a musical or an art exhibition.