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  • Abdirahim Hassan

    Abdirahim Hassan Abdirahim is the founder of Coffee Afrik CIC, overseeing seven hubs, 17 projects rooted in mental health recovery, culturally, sensitive, problematic drug use projects, a research and litigation lab, two women’s co-ops and a thriving youth hub the busiest in Tower Hamlets. Abdirahim has spent 20 years organising communities campaigning about housing injustice,…

  • Amy Hall (she/her)

    Amy Hall (she/her) Amy is a social justice journalist and organiser. She is a co-editor at New Internationalist, her work covers a range of topics from climate justice to neocolonialism with a focus on the Global South. Amy is also also a member of Bunker Housing Co-op, working to build low-impact co-operative social housing in…

  • Asma Kabadeh (she/her)

    Asma Kabadeh (she/her) Asma is a Creative Producer with an extensive background in collaborative arts initiatives. Working across arts and heritage, community development, and documentary film, her work is primarily focused on supporting and developing creative voices. She is passionate about increasing access in the arts, art as a tool for self expression, connectivity and…

  • Azekel Axelle (they/them)

    Azekel Axelle (they/them) Azekel is a Founding Director of the Black Trans Foundation, a grassroots organisation that provides free therapy to Black trans and Black non-binary people. They are passionate about weaving canopies of support for healing, nurture and recovery. They understand and amplify the importance of spaces of care that are facilitated by those…

  • Claude Hendrickson (he/him)

    Claude Hendrickson (he/him) Claude has been active in the self build/community-led housing sector for over 30 years, advocating for more opportunities for projects in urban settings in the North of the UK. In 1989, he founded the Frontline Community Self-Build to support an unemployed group of African and Carribbean men. He is also a founding…

  • Cherokee (they/them)

    Cherokee (they/them) Cherokee heads up Decolonising Economics’ comms and marketing. They’re passionate about documenting our histories as people of colour. Issues: Arts and Culture

  • Dacia

    Dacia Dacia is community organiser working towards creating more spaces that foster nurturing communities. They do this at Wharf Radical Lending Library, a collective focused on engaging people with political resistance in a community-oriented way. Wharf Radical Lending Library offer a free collection of radical books primarily made up of Black and Brown, migrant, and…

  • Dee (she/her)

    Dee (she/her) Dee is a creator, organiser, and founder of the Black Feminist Bookshop, a space for resistance, imagination, and care. Inspired by Black feminist writers, they organise pop-ups, events and book clubs, and collaborates with Black women and queer authors, activists, artists and healers who are working towards Black liberation. Dee provides communities with…

  • Dre Ferdinand (she/her)

    Dre Ferdinand (she/her) Dre is a licensed social worker, artist and therapist, whose practices include movement, energy, sound, soil, and EMDR, modalities that have informed her ‘MESSE’ approach. Her practice framework is rooted in healing, social and restorative justice. Dre’s focus involves aiding individuals and communities in processing and recovering from systemic harm and trauma…

  • Evie Muir (she/they)

    Evie Muir (she/they) Evie is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District-based nature for healing, grassroots community group, by and for people of colour – whose work sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice. As a Northern writer based in Sheffield, Evie is interested in writing…