Ventures
Platforms, practices, and partnerships I've founded and lead.
Principal & Founder · Since 2008
A strategy and philanthropy consulting firm managing participatory and data-informed initiatives to support underinvested communities. SID Studios helps foundations navigate systems change, develop adaptive strategies, and build communities of practice that sustain equitable power structures and foster long-term resilience.
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An early-stage, learner-generated data center strengthening local capacity to upskill underemployed workers. timbuktuu drives investment, engagement, inclusion, and equitable access to high-quality learning for vulnerable worker communities across East Africa and the Diaspora.
Initiative Lead
A research and strategy initiative focused on humanizing data governance and championing ethical data ownership within diasporic communities. Advancing frameworks for inclusive digital infrastructure, responsible AI, and community-led data sovereignty — ensuring the people behind the data shape how it's used.
Steward & Creator
A social learning and leading practice engaging communities across the African Diaspora about identity, art, and cultural legacies. The Diascope reimagines how diasporic knowledge is shared, preserved, and activated across borders.
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Frontline Solutions · Building Impact Partners · Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) · Ford Foundation · W.K. Kellogg Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund · Open Society Foundations · Atlantic Philanthropies · The ELMA Philanthropies · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · The Africa-America Institute · Corporate Council on Africa