Category: Profile

  • Last Mafuba (she/her)

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    Last Mafuba (she/her) Last advocates for social justice and has a profound commitment to promoting equity and empowering marginalised communities. She conducts groundbreaking research on the accessibility and utilisation of mental health services among migrants, shedding light on the intersections of migrant integration, mental health, and social justice. She also uses the findings to develop…

  • Mumbi Nkonde (she/they)

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    Mumbi Nkonde (she/they) Mumbi self idenitifies as a weaver and builder in our struggle for collective liberation. As a community activist guided by Black feminist principles, she aims to connect movement work and practise meaningful solidarity, most recently in anti-racism organising, climate justice and queer feminist communities. In their paid work, they are one of…

  • Marcus Macdonald

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    Marcus Macdonald Marcus is a mixed heritage (Jamaican, Indian, British) queer grower, community organiser, South Londoner, gardener by trade and a Tour Manager for the bands Big Joanie and Divide and Dissolve. Marcus has been growing his own food and herbs since he was a young teenager. He’s been part of the DIY punk music…

  • Nigel Carter (he/him)

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    Nigel Carter (he/him) Nigel a community development worker and researcher, committed to building capacity for and resourcing community power within the global majority of Oxford and its surroundings. He does this primarily through Oxford Community Action and other local organising initiatives. He is inspired and led by Black radical organising practices and strategies. Issues: Food,…

  • Nish Doshi (they/them)

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    Nish Doshi (they/them) Nish is community builder, researcher, facilitator and strategist who focuses on building cultures of care. They have over 15 years of experience in grassroots organising and campaigning in the UK, in areas as diverse as food justice, digital rights, and environmental justice. Currently their work is focussed around decolonising knowledge processes, tech…

  • Nonhlanhla Makuyana (they/them)

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    Nonhlanhla Makuyana (they/them) Nonhlanhla Makuyana is a Community Economist and one half of Decolonising Economics. Their work seeks to facilitate sensuous understandings of the economy that nourish life by focusing on African diaspora economic thought and practice. Through research, archiving, facilitation and writing, their work builds a bridge between historic and contemporary movements for economic…

  • Raks Abdulahi (they/them)

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    Raks Abdulahi (they/them) Raks Abdulahi is a DJ, sound artist and community organiser. Their community work primarily involves co-facilitating a queer Somali organisation and collective in the UK. Additionally, their work aims to centre queer, Black people and their experiences and connect these experiences and narratives, whether is be sonically through their music or in…

  • Samia Dumbuya (she/they)

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    Samia Dumbuya (she/they) Samia is a climate justice advocate focusing on community empowerment and engagement with young people and marginalised communities. They are currently studying at UCL, MSc Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions observing pathways and tools to decolonise extractive systems. Samia focuses on the power of the people and using collective power to…

  • Sim Wadiwala (she/her)

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    Sim Wadiwala (she/her) Sim is usually in her housing coop in Brighton, living her cottagecore and anticapitalist vibe. She is a part of the finance group for a national mutual aid network of coops, supporting coops to raise money and do spreadsheet modelling for re/financing land and housing. In 2023 Sim became the first paid…

  • Simmone Ahiaku (she/her)

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    Simmone Ahiaku (she/her) Simmone is a campaigner, facilitator, writer and organiser who has contributed to environmental, educational and housing work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and climate justice campaigns. She uses facilitated workshops to talk about climate change, health and colonialism at Wood & Water. Simmone…