UK Cultural Partnerships & Communications Advisor — Collective Wisdom

Truda founded Collective Wisdom, a cultural PR and marketing agency, after more than three decades working across the literary and cultural world, building broad and deep connections across the sector. Her campaigns have included launching the Library of Birmingham and shaping the prestige of prizes such as the International Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Current clients — The Queen's Reading Room Festival, the Orwell Prizes, Fourth Estate, Stratford Literary Festival, Pansy Books and Wimbledon BookFest.

Boards — Chair of the Book Society; has served on the boards of Theatres Trust and the Royal Society of Arts.