From trauma and self-loathing to shared love through connection with earth, remembrance of oneness and creative expression and changemaking.
For many years, trauma and self-loathing shaped how I saw myself. Beauty was not something I felt within me; it was something I had to find my way towards. Through poetry, painting, music, performance and other forms of creative expression, I began to reclaim my voice, my body and my relationship with self. This journey of healing continues to shape my artivism and my response to violence against women and girls.
My life-practice has also blossomed through education, spiritual enquiry, research and collaboration across countries, cultures and communities. Rooted in self-enquiry, connected with the living earth, and guided by a shared remembrance of oneness, I bring creativity, compassion and collective imagination into relationships with people, places and planet as an interconnected living whole.
I am the founder and CEO of eduSOIL CIC and lead Design for Change partnerships in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sudan. I hold an Arts Council England-endorsed Global Talent visa in Combined and Participatory Arts and am a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Arts, English and Languages. Across countries and communities, my work has received recognition spanning arts and culture, education, technological innovation, social enterprise, youth leadership, mental health and wellbeing, particularly in South Africa, the Philippines, India, Sudan and Northern Ireland.
Through art, learning, embodied practice and collaboration, I create opportunities for individuals and communities to discover their own beauty and creative potential, deepen belonging, and transform connection into meaningful, compassionate action.
