Parusha Naidoo is a memory and museum practitioner, with cross-disciplinary expertise in human rights, transitional justice and peacebuilding. She is passionate about working collaboratively to create and maintain trusted spaces for marginalized groups to be heard, seen and acknowledged—and through this, engender solidarity and allyship across society. Her previous transitional justice work covered multi-partner projects on forced migration, political regression and racial justice, and country programs for Sudan and the Gambia. Her experience includes coaching museums in piloting inclusive practices and community-led memorial projects, and supporting networks of grassroots organizations in conflict and post-conflict contexts.

Parusha currently holds the position of Inclusive Practice Adviser at the Wellcome Collection. She has also held positions at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Life & Peace Institute (Kenya), the Restitution Foundation, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa). Parusha holds an MA in Global Affairs, with a specialization in Peace Studies, from the University of Notre Dame (USA) and a Postgraduate Degree in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town (South Africa).