Tag: Visionary

  • 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…

  • Dee (she/her)

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    Dee (she/her) Dee is a creator, convenor 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…

  • Guppi Bola (she/her)

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    Guppi Bola (she/her) Guppi is the former co-director of Decolonising Economics  Guppi loves building economic infrastructure rooted in community practise. She works at the intersection of health equity and community wealth building by delivering workshops on the solidarity economy, organising assemblies in her own community, and collaborating with some excellent teams (Good Ancestor Movement, Power to Prosper, Centric Lab) She also…

  • Javie Huxley (she/her)

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    Javie Huxley (she/her) Javie is British Chilean illustrator based in London. Alongside illustration, she is a designer for Migrants in Culture and the co-chair for Save Latin Village (currently on hiatus). Javie finds a lot of joy in blending both art and community organising, designing ways to uplift the imaginations and voices of diasporic communities…

  • Jumoke Abdullahi (she/her)

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    Jumoke Abdullahi (she/her) Jumoke is a Nigerian-born British force of nature and the co-founder of Our Living Archives and The Triple Cripples. These organisations and platforms exemplify her great passion for social justice and focus on the impact that the media, and wider systems, have on multiply marginalised people, especially those racialised as Black.  Jumoke…

  • 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,…

  • 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…