Dreamt into being by my grandmothers.

At the most unforgiving borders

For over two decades, I have served across the United Nations and international NGOs—driving food security and refugee initiatives in the Great Lakes Region, championing child rights advocacy in Geneva, and building community alongside refugees and minority ethnic women in the UK.

As a Montessori Directress, my life's work weaves institutional depth with grounded, relational pedagogy.

Again and again, I have stood with people at the most unforgiving of borders: between homelands, between war and peace, between who they were and who they must now become. I have witnessed what forced migration takes, and what mercy can restore.

In 2003, I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer of the Nation in the Voluntary Sector.

I see through a diasporic lens, as someone who belongs to more than one place and fully to none. Alongside my inherited lineage, I trained as a global mystic with Andrew Harvey, Mirabai Starr and other respected guides.

I have led circles and co-woven Eldering Councils where other ways of knowing are honoured, where story, ritual and deep listening carry as much authority as strategy and structure.

Always, I am working to "store ease" in the stories we speak, hold, imagine, nurture and exhale.

A living poem. A loving prayer.

I was born of confluences: the places where one thing meets another and both are changed.

My maternal grandmother took my small hand when I was eight years old, initiating me onto a path that has spent more than forty years deepening through loss, growth, and the slow turning of seasons and cycles.

My paternal grandmother crossed the veil in a refugee camp, yet she found me across the mist, speaking to me through the language of dreams.

When I sat with this collage, the sediment of her river rose up to meet me—ancient, unsettled, instructions that carry powerful medicine.

I stand within African-rooted lineages that honour entangled ecosystems as sacred: human, ancestral, more-than-human and the Earth itself.

Living at the threshold

I was born in Dar es Salaam, the "haven of peace". My life has followed its tides across four continents and cultures, into new ways of belonging. I have learned that migration is not only leaving. It is also carrying home within you, and becoming a haven for others along the way.

When some are excited about lighthouses, I am about the port.