Sylvia Arthur is a storyteller and strategic communicator who uses the power of narrative to build organisations, institutions, and movements that make a positive difference in the world, influencing policy, shifting thinking, and changing behaviour.

She is the founder of the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD), a decolonising library, archive, writing residency, and research institute based in Accra, Ghana.

She is a Ford Global Fellow and a National Geographic Explorer whose work to document the stories of African women aged 60+ and restore them to history through the creation of an expansive oral archive is ongoing.

Sylvia is a two-time TEDx speaker, an Africa No Filter Narrative Champion, and a Creative Activism Award recipient. In 2023, she was recognised by Brittle Paper as Literary Person of the Year.

She is on the board of CineFemFest, the African Feminist Film and Research Festival and Instituto Sacatar, the longest continuously-operating artist residency in Brazil.

She is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the New York Public Library‘s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture centennial anniversary celebrations.