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  • Kavya Chauhan (she/her)

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    Kavya Chauhan (she/her) Kavya is a creative strategist and copywriter who works with founders, start-ups and scale-ups to craft their identities and tell their stories. Her work centres on creating intentional strategies that drive sustainable growth, without compromising on joy. Kavya writes about the concept of identity in transition on Substack, where she explores navigating…

  • Annick Metefia

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    Annick Metefia Annick is a youth worker and activist from France. In London she has designed and run several projects supporting young people organising for community care and against police violence. She also coordinated the development of Kinfolk Network (KIN) and organised its first convening in 2018. In 2022 Annick became Voices that Shake!’s Programme…

  • 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. Issues: Food, Housing, Land, Media, Arts & Culture Organisation: New Internationalist

  • Asma Kabadeh (she/her)

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    Asma Kabadeh (she/her) Asma Kabadeh (she/her) is a Creative Producer and Filmmaker whose work bridges creative storytelling with community spacemaking in service of racial justice, land justice and archival justice. She currently holds the roles of Soma Sessions Co-Curator at Peaks of Colour, supporting survivors of gendered and racialised trauma to heal through somatic 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