About

Award-winning writer and editor, specialising in project-based work across disciplines including journalism, literature and the screen.

Alongside working as an editor at the New York Times and Skin Deep magazine, I’m currently developing a pilot with the BBC and writing my first novel. In 2024 I completed a fellowship at the University of Oxford and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, investigating how the media reports on missing people.

I am the former Editor-in-Chief of the groundbreaking gal-dem magazine. In my journalism practice, I focus on interview features, profiles and essays on culture, identity, lifestyle and social politics and write regularly for a variety of outlets, including the Guardian, Stylist and ELLE UK. I also write a newsletter on the culture of friendship called The Companion.

Editor of the books Black Joy (Penguin, 2021), an anthology that explores what it means to be Black and British today, I Will Not Be Erased: Our Stories About Growing Up as People of Colour (Walker, 2019), a groundbreaking essay collection, and the editor and main author of Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Hachette, 2018), a leading exploration of the Windrush generation. My writing is included in anthologies including Loud Black Girls, Comfort Zones and Black British Lives Matter.

Experienced podcaster, event host, speaker and panellist. Commercial clients include BAFTA, Exposure, Nike and Channel 4. Scott Trust alumnus, and winner of the Georgina Henry Award for Innovation in Journalism.