People

With over 18 years of experience in strategic management, community engagement, and cultural programming, Stacey-Leigh Dolan is a proven leader in driving impactful, inclusive initiatives. Her career spans roles such as Programme Manager at Drive Forward Foundation and CEO & Founder of BreakAway, a social enterprise focused on offender rehabilitation.

After 17 years in London and 3.5 years at London Transport Museum, where she rose to Interim Head of Learning, Stacey-Leigh is excited to take on an exciting new role as Head of Programmes at the National Football Museum in Manchester. She is excited to bring football’s rich cultural heritage to life for diverse audiences, fostering greater inclusion and community involvement through innovative programmes and carefully curated events.

As Chair of Trustees, Stacey-Leigh leverages her governance, leadership, and community-driven experience to support the museum's mission of challenging taboos and promoting understanding of gynecological anatomy. Passionate about inclusivity, she aims to help the museum grow its reach and impact, ensuring it remains a vibrant, welcoming, accessibility and educational space for all.

Claire Mead is a community engagement manager at the Museum of London as well as an arts & heritage curator and educator. She specialises in engaging audiences around feminist and LGBTQI narratives and queering museums via consulting, exhibitions and events, as well as performance with her drag king alter ego Eugène Delacroissant.

Claire's research as a sword lesbian historian focuses on arms and armour via a queer and feminist lens which includes exploring art historical and wider cultural representations of warrior women. She shares her findings via the podcast Bustles & Broadswords, as well as the YouTube channel Joust Gal Pals. Outside of her work in the museum and heritage sector Claire is also a writer, illustrator and author of the webcomic Girls’ School of Knighthood.

Claire hopes to use her expertise in community engagement, collections, curating and queer feminist advocacy in museums and heritage to help further the Vagina Museum’s mission.

Claye Bowler is an Artist and Museum Worker who is particularly interested in the political priorities of historical and current collecting within archives, and museum collections. Bowler focuses on subverting how queer and trans narratives have been perpetually hidden, erased or destroyed, and therefore not usually held within collections. He has created artwork around this but also created space for queer and trans people when Directing Yonder Gallery and Yorkshire Trans Choir.

Claye has held a variety of roles within the museum sector, Front of House with National Trust and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Collections Care at Nýlistasafnið and Reykjavik Art Museum, and most recently in Museum Registration with Tate, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal Armouries and Leeds Museums & Galleries. He is currently working with the Museum of Transology on their TransPrideUK collections.

Claye is looking forward to developing exhibitions, working with artists and assisting in starting the Vagina Museum collection.

Jo is a Senior Counsel and an information rights specialist in the Commercial Technology and Data team at Taylor Wessing. She has over ten years of experience advising on contentious and non-contentious data and IP matters. Jo works with clients of all sorts to develop data privacy strategies. Jo has extensive experience of managing cybersecurity breaches and data and confidential information-focused litigation.

Much of Jo's work involves explaining complex privacy issues to groups of all ability levels; and in addition to running popular privacy training courses she is a leading proponent of Taylor Wessing's innovative legal design programme, tackling legal problems of all sorts with user focused design-thinking.

She was listed as a Rising Star by Managing Intellectual Property in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and as one of Global Data Review's Top 40 Under 40 in 2018.

Leigh is Chief Executive of Kielder Observatory, one of the best-known astronomy sites in the UK and located in a Gold Tier International Dark Sky Park.

Previously, he served as Heritage Development Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), was a trustee and later Chair of the contemporary dance company Fertile Ground, was responsible for the direction and development of the revived Jarrow Hall museum and heritage site, and directed operations at Newcastle upon Tyne's iconic Tyneside Cinema.

Leigh has written for Sentient Media, The Vegan Society, Narc Magazine, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Plant Based News, Scran on the Tyne, and more. He is also a partner at Slope Design and has worked with several local and international animal advocacy organisations.

Polly is an NHS doctor specialising in sexual and reproductive health (SRH). She works both in sexual health and contraception clinics, as well as hospital gynaecology. Her research, based at UCL, focuses on medical education and training including SRH for mental health professionals. Polly is especially passionate about improving access to, destigmatising and decriminalising abortion. She is a committee member of Doctors for Choice UK, has developed international abortion teaching resources and produced multiple abortion campaign music videos.

Polly feels privileged to be training as an SRH doctor and passionately believes everyone should have access to the same information about their health that she has. She has an MSc in Science Communication and is hoping to bring this, her clinical work and her passion for reproductive justice together in her position as a trustee at the wonderful Vagina Museum.

Sarah has worked in global health for over 15 years, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. Initially trained as a scientist, she worked on the development of vaginal HIV prevention technologies before moving into project management. In her current role, she manages a large programme of global health research for a London based university. She has a particular interest in menstrual health, education, and ensuring no child ever has to miss school due to period poverty. She is a a passionate feminist and advocate for inclusive sexual health and reproductive rights. She is committed to reducing the endemic stigma and shame surrounding vaginas (including her own personal crusade against “feminine deodorant products”), normalising discussion and education amongst all genders and ages, and empowering people who have a vagina to enjoy and celebrate it.

Polly is a fundraising specialist whose career has centred on raising funds for the cultural sector enabling theatre productions, visual art and humanities exhibitions, museum acquisitions and varied learning programmes for all ages. A passionate museum lover, Polly has held positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the South Australian Museum (Adelaide, Australia) and currently leads fundraising for the immersive theatre charity Punchdrunk Enrichment. 

Polly cares deeply about women’s and the LGBTQ+ community's rights and empowerment and is proud of the Vagina Museum’s role as a trailblazer in ensuring silenced voices are heard.  As a lifelong feminist Polly hopes her role as a Trustee will contribute to the Vagina Museum's mission to spread knowledge and raise awareness, enhancing the lives of as many people as possible.

As well as visiting the theatre and museums & galleries, Polly can often be found reading, writing, walking on Hampstead Heath or exploring London with her wife and two children.