Twenty years making Global South voices heard.
Twenty years making Global South voices (Africa, the Indian Ocean islands, the Pacific) heard at national, regional and global level. I design the communication strategy and produce the stories that deliver it.
I built the unified communication narrative for Indian Ocean NGOs working on HIV/AIDS, so a fragmented sector could speak with one voice.
In East Africa, I made women in fisheries visible: through regional media and network events that connected them to peers they didn't know existed.
In the Pacific, I translated complex tuna science and climate research for general audiences and for decision-makers, and made it land.
I thought the gender lens was accidental. I was wrong. The turning point was the "sausage lady", a Ugandan woman who wanted to launch a fish sausage business and had no idea where to start. I put her story on regional media in East Africa. The connections came. The rest is history. From then on, I noticed how often women weren't at the table, weren't in the narrative, weren't getting the information they needed to lead. And how much changed once they did.
I work in English and French.
What I bring that others don't: outcome-first thinking. I don't start with the deliverable. I start with the question, what is this actually meant to change, and for whom? Then I build backwards. I am an islander and African, with six years lived in the Pacific and field work across East Africa and the South-West Indian Ocean. That combination is rare in this work.
