I have worked for nearly 20 years on creative projects in the community delivering classes and workshops in film, animation and collage, creative writing and poetry. I was the founder of The Way of Words Creative Writing and Live Literature which ran from 2000-2010 and included the anthology And Then There Was Light, with the work of 24 Lambeth writers, more info

Since I’ve worked mostly with vulnerable adults in mental health and homelessness services including at the V&A, the South London and Maudsley Hospital and St Mungos Recovery College. My own status as a vulnerable adult is an asset and in often a requirement. I have lived experience of overcoming mental health challenges, homelessness and a dysfunctional relationship which involved stalking, abuse and a form of what is now described as coercive control. Through these experiences and the healing required and undertaken I have developed empathy and the ability to work with sensitivity and compassion, using creativity as a route to greater self awareness and agency and increased feelings of confidence and self worth.

I have curated a number of events with spoken word, live literature, dj’s, vj’s and musicians honoured to have been joined by special guests including Lindsey German at War, Lies and Stereotypes, Paddy Hill and John Cooper Clarke appeared at A Force Fusion, Brian Paddick and Alex Wheatley featured at Speaking in Tongues, Agnes Meadows mc’ed at Remembering Fallujah, Malika Booker performed at launch of And Then There Was Light, Dolly Sen at the launch of Out is the Word and Karen McCarthy Woolf, Tolu Agbelusi, mc Yomi Sode entranced our audience at the launch of 306: Living Under the Shadow of Regeneration.

306: Living under the shadow of regeneration launch night in the

I have a Level 3 Award in Education and Training, a Certificate in Writers in the Community from The University of Sussex, Centre for Continuing Education and completed a Phrased & Confused Development Programme for event promoters. I attend classes at Spread the Word and the Poetry School and I am a member of NAWE, the National Association of Writers in Education, and Unite Community, a branch of Unite the Union.