Kristen joined the REACT team from Bower Ashton, where she worked as a research assistant on the Creative Industries Mapping Project, which works to capture, quantify, and map engagement and exchange between creative industry and UWE’s Schools of Art & Design and Film & Journalism.

Following her graduation from McGill University in Montreal in 2014, where she studied Art History and History, Kristen interned for the Exhibitions team at Arnolfini and worked for RWA.