I am a designer-maker, researcher, and academic working in collaboration with diaspora communities. My practice is grounded in craftsmanship, embodied experience, and cultural resilience. Trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, I began my career with avant-garde fashion designers in London’s East End, where I shaped textile collections through the technical precision and material sensitivity of couture—an approach that continues to inform my teaching at the Royal College of Art. A key strand of my practice involves transatlantic collaborations between African-diasporic artists in London and African-descendant communities in Mascarilla, Ecuador. Through co-creative projects in spoken word, music, and mask-making, we celebrate shared histories, promote self-determination, and contribute to initiatives that build economic resilience. Design, in this context, becomes an act of revalorisation—what Kobena Mercer (1987) describes as the process by which marginalised communities rework dominant symbols to generate new meaning, dignity, and cultural agency. Through this lens, I position design as a transformative tool: one that not only sustains identity but also subverts power, fosters critical dialogue, and helps to imagine more just and equitable futures.