Adriana is an expert in culture-led regeneration and cultural placemaking. She is leading the cultural strategy in Thamesmead for Peabody, and putting local residents at the heart of shaping the town’s future. The strategy has delivered affordable artist studios in an iconic brutalist building with Bow Arts, set up a local arts organisation TACO! and locally-run radio station RTM.FM, established the award-winning Thamesmead Festival led by local residents, and commissioned international art projects that have put Thamesmead on the map. Adriana is now looking at community governance and how we can embed long term cultural programmes in collaboration with local people.

She is also known for delivering the public art programme on the Olympic Park as it was built, and leading the London Legacy Development Corporation’s Cultural Strategy which has led to the creation of East Bank, and the protection of artist studios in Hackney Wick. She has written "Open Space", an advocacy publication for Arts Council England on best practice public art in London; ran the contemporary art programme at the Austrian Cultural Forum for seven years; and created Lido Love, a night-time festival at London Fields Lido in Hackney which ran for three years.

Adriana is a member of the NLA’s Culture Expert Panel, the GLA’s Advisory Board for the Thames Estuary Production Corridor, co-chair of Three Rivers, Bexley’s Creative People and Places programme, an RSA fellow, and a mentor for University of the Arts undergraduate programme.