Dr Nathania Atkinson
Cultural Governance Strategist · Research Director · Founder, J2N Atkinson™

Founder & Research Director

Dr Nathania Atkinson is the founder of J2N Atkinson™ and the creator of three proprietary doctoral frameworks, Transatlantic Diasporic Black Feminist Epistemology (TDBFE™), Diasporic Embodied Praxis (DEP™), and Intricate Mastery, produced through her PhD at the University of East Anglia (2025).

Her practice operates at the structural point where cultural and creative institutions generate influence but lack the frameworks to recognise, govern, or sustain it. Dr Atkinson translates embodied knowledge, cultural memory, and diasporic heritage intelligence into governance systems that institutions can resource, regulate, and sustain without erasure, dilution, or extraction.

Over twenty years, she has led commissioned research and strategic advisory engagements across national cultural institutions, creative industries, academic environments, and government bodies. Her work has shaped policy internally at Wellcome Trust, presented at the House of Commons, illuminated lived experiences of communities with Age UK, informed global equity strategy at Spotify, and produced documentary research for the Windrush Legacy, Birmingham Music Legacy, and Invisible Leaders Project. She has spoken in Texas, Jamaica, Barbados, the Netherlands and the UK.