Trade, diaspora economies, emergent grantmaking, and building systems that move resources where they matter most.
Trade & Diaspora Economies
My personal mission is to strengthen and build relevant knowledge and trade corridors linking East Africa to the Eastern Caribbean and the Americas. This means connecting diasporic innovation with catalytic investing, enabling African and Diaspora-owned enterprises to access new markets, and reimagining what intra-regional trade looks like when it's designed by the communities it's meant to serve.
Ecosystem Gaps
Across the Africa-Caribbean corridor, sectors like workforce development, edtech, creative industries, agritech, tourism, and hospitality are consistently underserved by the current financing architecture. But the gap isn't only capital — it's the ecosystem around it. Enterprises need business readiness support, market intelligence, regulatory navigation, digital infrastructure, data collection and analysis, and sustained technical assistance to become bankable and investment-ready. I'm focused on building the connective tissue between enterprise potential and the institutional infrastructure required to unlock it.
In Practice
This work is actively in motion. Through the CARIBEquity 2026 programme — an EU and IDB Lab-co-funded Caribbean early-stage investment training initiative — I am deepening my understanding of how to identify bankable enterprises and build the ecosystems that support investment readiness across the region. In June 2026, I presented “When Data Moves Like We Do: Designing Data Diasporas” at the 50th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference in Jamaica, further developing a framework for how data, culture, and trade intersect across diasporic communities.
Emergent Grantmaking
Traditional grantmaking often replicates the power structures it claims to dismantle. I'm working on adaptive, community-informed philanthropic strategies that embed equity in decision-making, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and foster learning cultures that can respond to unpredictable political and economic climates.