Lena Nahlous

Lena Nahlous is an experienced CEO, producer, curator, artistic director and facilitator with a long-term commitment to racial equity in the arts, screen and creative sectors. She is currently the CEO of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast.

She has over 20 years-experience in arts, cultural and media organisations where she has developed artist brokerage and training programs focusing on creatives from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds and young people. In her former role as Executive Director of Arts and Cultural Exchange, she established initiatives like the Arab Film Festival, Switch digital media centre and Artfiles, an artist employment and engagement program.

Lena’s recent projects include: the Shifting the Balance leadership report; the Creative Equity Toolkit; the Fair Play equity and inclusion capacity building program, and the I am Not a Virus initiative. In 2020, Lena won the Western Sydney Woman Leader of Change Award.