Ventures
Platforms, practices, and partnerships I've founded and lead.
Founder · Bridgetown, Barbados · 2025
A Caribbean-rooted product studio building market-ready apps at the intersection of Caribbean identity, community need, and sharp design. Three products in active development with waitlists open: Barbadileños (Caribbean Spanish language learning for regional trade and travel), Lime (community-first fitness & wellness), and Indigo (a regional art supply marketplace addressing a gap in locally sourced creative tools). Each product targets underserved sectors in the Caribbean digital economy.
Visit Site →Founder & Strategy Lead
An early-stage workforce platform strengthening local capacity to upskill underemployed workers across East Africa and the Diaspora. timbuktuu uses learner-generated data to drive targeted investment, measure outcomes, and build equitable access to high-quality learning — creating a scalable model for workforce development in underserved markets.
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.
Visit Site →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.
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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Corporate Council on Africa · The Africa-America Institute · Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) · Frontline Solutions · Building Impact Partners · Ford Foundation · W.K. Kellogg Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund · Open Society Foundations · Atlantic Philanthropies · The ELMA Philanthropies · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation