Create Change Studios (est 2009) is the work of Alicia Campbell - Creative Director/Producer, Artist & Activist.
Her work as a professional began as a childhood TV & Theatre performer in England; later she carved out a global multi disciplined career as a photographic & film artist, writer & creative producer, focusing particularly in recent years on marketing, motion design and her own work as multi-media artist.
Most of her campaign work is singlehandedly directed and produced.
Notable achievements include: awarded a national bursary in 2007 for innovative creative producing, being chosen as inaugural member of the International Curators Forum at Venice Biennale 2007, acting as Chair of Sustained Theatre Yorkshire for 2 years, being responsible for the development of the Dance Undergraduate Degree Course at LBU; being the strategic lead for the UK's first inclusive bodyweight movement in 2012; creating a hugely successful audience development music programme to launch We Out Here Festival, being selected for an Animation scholarship in 2020; raising over $500,000 as the Creative Director for #Give2Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2022.
Of Jamaican/Irish descent she is a storyteller/change maker who refuses to be labelled. As a disabled, BIPOC woman, emphasis on inclusion and access has threaded throughout her life and career. She is currently creating pioneering work around chronic illness.
Her traumatic early adulthood have given her a breadth of lived experience and empathy in her work - leading to years of unpaid mentoring and interest in social justice & philanthropic work. A victim of child grooming & a forced marriage at 16 she was a mother of 3 by the age of 21, finally escaping a life extreme domestic violence & coercion 10 years later, she returning to finish her education and went on to excel, despite having to work and care for her children alone.
Alicia is available for consultancy, contracts, appearances and commissions.