Category: Profile

  • Roshni Goyate (she/her)

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    Roshni Goyate (she/her) Roshni is a content/copy/communications strategist, writer and a poet. She is the founder of Tenderly, where she runs creative writing workshops (online and in-person) to empower people to (re)connect to their creative selves, with the bigger goal for us all to become more embodied, more intentional, more community-minded and more attuned to…

  • Natasha Thembiso Ruwona (she/her)

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    Natasha Thembiso Ruwona (she/her) Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is an artist, researcher and events producer. Her practice is informed by many methodologies: Afrofuturism, Black Feminist Geographies, and the Black Radical Tradition. Natasha produces nurturing spaces where communities can build collective power towards liberation, as part of the teams at Decolonising Economics and Kinfolk Network. Read more…

  • Abdirahim Hassan

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    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)

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    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)

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    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)

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    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)

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    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)

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    Cherokee (they/them) Cherokee previously led Decolonising Economics’ and communications and marketing. They’re passionate about documenting our histories as people of colour, in particular working class, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities. Issues: Arts and Culture

  • Dacia

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    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)

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    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…