Category: Profile

  • 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…

  • Sophie Yates Lu (she/they)

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    Sophie Yates Lu (she/they) Sophie is a massage therapist who is committed to making bodywork accessible as a healing tool for survivors of violence and trauma. She also works with survivors of violence and other marginalised groups who want to tell their stories and organise together. Issues: Arts and culture

  • Tanita JL

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    Tanita JL Tanita is an Afrikan Reparationist focusing on the decolonisation of education and of the economy through grassroots organising, research, and educational facilitation, in service of Afrikan and Global South communities in anti-imperialist resistance. Issues: Education

  • Theodora Ndlovu (she/her)

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    Theodora Ndlovu (she/her) Theodora is a photographer and visual artist who uses art to tell stories around identity, spirituality and sexuality. Check out her work on her website. Issues: Arts and Culture

  • Victoria Williams (she/her)

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    Victoria Williams (she/her) Victoria is one of the Co-Founder and Directors of People Dem Collective (PDC), a community organisation in Margate, founded by members of the Black, Brown and Diaspora communities. The collective was born out of a lived experience of lack of space, engagement and inclusion for these communities and a desire to encourage…