Colombian-born, Carolina is an experienced cultural manager, researcher, and academic whose work has spanned three continents. She has over 16 years of experience in the arts, not-for-profit, and government sectors, where she has led award-winning initiatives and developed numerous projects supporting underrepresented artists and cultural expressions. In 2017, Carolina won the New South Wales Premier’s Multicultural Community Medal – Arts and Culture for her work with Settlement Services International (SSI).
Carolina is currently undertaking doctoral research at the University of Sussex in the UK, where she lived for three years before joining DARTS. Her PhD thesis examines the experiences of professional theatre artists who have migrated to the UK. It engages with current debates in migration scholarship and creative labour studies, informed by feminist and critical perspectives. As an academic and researcher, Carolina’s interests lie at the intersection of migration and creative labour, with a particular focus on the intersectional inequalities faced by artists and creatives with migration experience. More broadly, she is interested in labour geographies, the sociology of migration, and cultural studies.