Clara Vaughan

Biography

Clara is the CEO of the Old Fire Station in Oxford, a multi-form arts centre that shares a building and a deep partnership with Crisis, the homelessness charity. The OFS is also the convenor of the Marmalade Festival, which runs alongside the Skoll World Forum. Clara has a proven track record of leading the creative and business development of organisations, in a career at the intersection of the arts and social impact in both the UK and South Africa. In a world characterised by structures that dehumanise sectors of the population, she sees art as a reclamation of humanness, a means for us to re-imagine the social structures that cause us harm, and a way to enact the hope and solidarity necessary for this work.