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I am a Creative Strategist, Cultural Consultant, Producer, and Researcher and Storyteller rooted in the traditions and futures of the Caribbean. My work lives where heritage, performance, and social justice meet and create spaces that honour ancestral memory while inspiring new possibilities.
Through projects like Kambule and Lanyap Festival, I use storytelling, research, and production to amplify voices, build community, and design experiences that are both healing and transformative. Whether writing, teaching, or producing, I am committed to celebrating Caribbean identity and using creativity as a tool for resistance, joy, and change.
Over the past two decades, I have worked across journalism, cultural production, education, and research – always guided by a belief in storytelling as a form of social intervention.
I began my professional career at Radio 96.1, where I gained foundational experience in broadcasting, production, and audience engagement. From there, I moved into journalism as a reporter and columnist with the Trinidad Guardian, later serving as Head of News at Gayelle the Channel and a presenter on Our TV4. These early roles strengthened my skills in research, media production, and communication – and deepened my commitment to using narrative as a way to reflect and shape social realities.
Since 2020, I have been the Creative Strategist and a Director at the IDAKEDA Group, where I produce Kambule, facilitate creative workshops for teachers, students, and community workers, and help design cultural projects that connect heritage to contemporary justice movements.
My creative work has taken many forms – from producing the Kambule Film during Carnival 2021, to creating Anansi and the Worldwide Web during lockdown, to researching and curating cultural events in collaboration with institutions such as the British Museum, Victoria Miro Gallery, UNHCR, and the German Embassy Port of Spain. I have also contributed to projects like Women in Pan, Blow Way: The Legacy of Lancelot Layne, and the House of Music interview series for the Wajang Diskotheque.
As a writer and researcher, my essays have appeared in exhibitions including Chris Ofili’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Geoffrey and Boscoe Holder: Vetiver and Turpentine at Victoria Miro, and earlier in publications for Tate Britain and the Museum of London.
I have been invited to speak and present work at international conferences and cultural gatherings from Bahia to Brooklyn, Lagos to London – including the Caribbean Studies Association, Black Feminist Forum, TEDx Port of Spain, and the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva. My presentations often explore the intersections of feminism, Pan-Africanism, ecology, and the spiritual continuities that define Caribbean identity.
In 2021, I was honoured to be selected as a UN OHCHR Fellow for People of African Descent, and since 2023, I have served on the Trinidad and Tobago National Committee on Reparations.
I hold a Master’s in Carnival Studies from the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and I studied Media and Communication at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. My academic work has deepened my exploration of traditional mas, African spiritual retentions, and the creative languages of protest – threads that continue to shape both my writing and production practice.
Each role – journalist, producer, researcher, cultural worker — has been part of one long story: the ongoing work of remembering, reconnecting, and reimagining who we are.