Lena Nahlous
Ms Lena Nahlous
Director
Information and Cultural Exchange
Lena Nahlous is a cultural development worker, arts manager and writer, and is the Director of Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), an organisation working across Western Sydney at the intersection of arts, culture, community and technology. She has worked for over a decade in non-government organisations, managing and collaborating on initiatives that have engaged thousands of people, particularly women, refugees, migrants and young people. She established Artfiles, a portal and directory for Western Sydney artists, the Switch Multimedia and Digital Arts Access Centre and was a co-founder of the Sydney Arab Film Festival. In 2006 Lena spent four months in Hong Kong as a recipient of an Asialink Arts Fellowship and in 2008 is undertaking the Asialink Leadership program. She is also a published writer and has produced work for radio, anthologies and performance. Lena was recently invited to participate in the 2020 Summit, and sits on the NSW Government Arts Advisory Committee.