Briana Pegado
Photo: Matt Beech Photography
Briana Pegado FRSA is the Creative Director of Fringe of Colour Films, a film festival that supports Black, POC, and Queer Creatives across Scotland and internationally. She was Executive Director of Creative Edinburgh and a Co-Director of Creative Informatics, a data-driven innovation partnership between Creative Edinburgh, Codebase, the University of Edinburgh's School of Design Informatics, and Edinburgh Napier's School of the Creative Industries until November 2020.
She is currently Chair of YWCA Scotland - the Young Women's Movement, an intergenerational movement that supports young women's leadership. As a fellow of the Royal Society of Art, member of the governing body of the University of York, and member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Post COVID-19 Futures Commission on Public Debate and Participation, she embeds her background in Sustainable Development in all of her work.
Briana helped set up the University of Edinburgh's first ever Black History Month in 2010 and became Edinburgh University Students' Association's (EUSA's) first black woman President in 2014. In the same year she founded the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF), an award-winning social enterprise that provided a platform for emerging artists and creatives facing barriers to the creative industries across Scotland. In 2015, she was named one of Scotland's Top Ten Social Innovators and in 2017 was named one of Scotland's ‘30 Under 30 Inspiring Young Women.'
