WHO WE ARE

Executive Director

I am a mother, organiser, strategist, builder and multidisciplinary artist. I am passionate about bringing people together to learn from one another, support one another, and turn theory into practice in community- with all the joy and messiness that this work entails.

I love solving problems, breaking and rebuilding systems, and resourcing communities to thrive. My approach is inspired by love, lived experience, Black feminist praxis, speculative fiction and the invitation to dream audaciously. I am interested in emergent strategy, moving at the speed of trust and creating the conditions for relationships to deepen over time. My practice is guided by anti-oppression, care, collectivism and accountability.

I am excited to co-create cross-movement collaborations that build deep, lasting relationships across generations. I am here for movement building, solidarity, joy and collective healing. I am here to experiment, learn and help build the radical infrastructure our movements need.

Organisational Access Partner

I am KIN’s Organisational Access Partner, working across the organisation to embed access and disability justice into its systems, practices and ways of working. My approach centres people, recognising that access is not a one-size-fits-all adjustment but an ongoing, relational practice. I work alongside colleagues to identify and reduce barriers, develop practical and sustainable approaches to access, and build the knowledge and confidence for everyone to understand what access looks like within their own area of work. At the heart of my role is a belief that access is a shared responsibility, something we continually learn, practise and build together.

Operations and Programme Coordinator

I am a researcher, writer and facilitator from South London. I'm currently working on a project about traditional wellbeing practices of the anglo-Caribbean diaspora and legacies of enslavement. As a lay-herbalist and textile artist, my practice is about the ways we nourish ourselves and each other.

At KIN, I'm inspired by and committed to realising practices of radical inclusivity, cross-movement solidarity and Black Feminist praxis.

Operations Manager

I am a passionate organiser, strategist, and committed practitioner of collective care. I deeply believe that operations is not just logistics - it’s political, relational, and transformative.

Drawing from over a decade of working within Black liberation movements - I bring experience in designing infrastructure that honours healing, autonomy, and clarity.

At KIN, my role is to build and sustain systems that centre Black organisers’ dignity, enable staff to work with ease and trust, and ensure operations align with our core principles of interdependence, joy, and accountability. I approach this work with curiosity, care and a radical imagination.

I’m here to co-create spaces where operations feels generative, aligned with Black Feminist praxis, and rooted in our collective vision for justice.

Programme and Communications Manager

I am an artist-researcher and community connector based in London.

Currently, I am part of Goldsmiths’ MA Research Architecture programme, investigating spatial justice in urban environments.

My work at KIN and beyond involves co-creating nourishing spaces for people to gather, dream and rest. This work is rooted in love, knowledge-building and community care.

I like spending time in nature and noticing the lessons it can teach us through interdependence and its alternative forms of time beyond capitalism. In response, I am practicing‍ ‍more cyclical ways of living.

Finance Manager (MoneyPad)

Consulting Finance Director (MoneyPad)

Consulting HR Director (A Little Bit of HR)

Branding, Design. Tech Infrastructure support

Consultant

Coaching and Facilitation Support

Governance consultant

Zahra is a queer Black feminist from Lewisham, South East London. After living abroad for some years, she delved into the city's political landscape via Take Back The City an anti-gentrification and popular education political project which offered an intervention into local elections. She co-founded a project called Our Fathers and Us which looked into Black British fatherhood and the myths and realities of Black communities and their relationships to fatherhood.Since then she got involved with the community food movement, climate justice work and land-based activism, especially where it is led by people of colour and working class people.

Heeding Malcolm X’s wisdom that “Revolution is based on land [and] land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality”, she begun to work within a framework of understanding that encompasses Black liberation as global land struggle and a fight against white supremacist separation and disconnect from self, other and the land. She follows in the footsteps of her pan-African parents in believing that global solidarity for Africa and the diaspora can unlock the transformative potential humanity needs to heal from the traumas of white supremacist hetero-patriarchy. Dreaming of a thriving independent media sector and joyful black children make her happy.

Kennedy spent the best part of a decade campaigning and organising for social and economic justice across various issues and movement spaces from housing to migration. They are one of the founders of Kinfolk Network and were a founding member of Resourcing Racial Justice and Covid Mutual Aid UK. Currently, they are freelancing working with individuals, collectives and organisations and their existing wisdom to facilitate strategy development, research processes, mediation and more. Kennedy is also a trainee counsellor at the Gestalt Centre in London.

Find them on socials @kennedysrwalker

Ayeisha is a social justice trainer, writer and broadcaster based in London, UK. She is one of two Executive Directors of NEON (the New Economy Organisers Network) and is currently undertaking a PhD at Goldsmiths University of London looking at neoliberalism and social movements. In 2017 she co-founded KIN, a network for Black activists working for collective liberation, and she sits on the boards of Common Wealth and the Institute for Public Policy Research. Ayeisha is passionate about Black liberation and alternative economic systems, and centres anti-oppression in her approach to organising for power. Ayeisha also presents the Weekly Economics Podcast, Economics with Subtitles for BBC R4 and The Why Factor for BBC World Service.

Samie is a social and climate justice facilitator with a background in environmental policy, intercultural studies, and creative communications. With a work and political ethos that revolves around community building and collective imaginations toward a just and resilient future, Samie regularly curates, hosts and facilitates events on topics related to sustainability, environmental justice, anti-racist decolonization, and ecosystem mapping. She currently co-leads the Collective Abundance project - a movement-building initiative that engages philanthropic funding as a tool to help strengthen the Climate Justice ecosystem across Europe.

Liz Chege is a curator, critic and researcher based in Glasgow and Nairobi. In 2022, she was honoured to be invited as a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, Acumen Fellow and BAFTA Scotland member. She is a Berlinale Talent alumni and founding member of Come the Revolution, a collective of creatives committed to exploring Black life and cultural expression through cinema. She was programme producer of British Council’s “No Direct Flight” at the British Film Institute, a cross-media exploration of global African diaspora moving-image makers; and is currently Lead Programmer for Leeds International Film Festival’s Oscar®-qualifying Louis le Prince International Competition as well as co-founder of Glasgow Film Festival’s Black Filmmakers Community Network.

She has served on international film festival juries including the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, the Grierson Awards, the 'Diversity in Cannes' programme, and the One World Media Awards. In her years as a marketing specialist, she created bespoke campaigns for special and grassroots audiences. She focused on independent films about disenfranchised communities living on the margins, such as BAFTA-winning "Bait" (2019) about the Cornish community and Cannes award-winning "The Ciambra" (2018) about the oppressed Romani community in Calabria, Italy. 

Her background in architecture and town planning gives her a unique understanding of our bodily response to artistic expression. Most recently, she was honoured to join as a James McCune Smith scholar at the University of Glasgow where she is conducting interdisciplinary research on the subject of Slow Violence.

Laura Barker is a facilitator, youth worker, writer, carer, and community orchardist. She used to organise with Black Lives Matter and is part of the Plantain Federation. She co-runs a queer black writing group in London and is Obsidian Foundation poet alumni. She is an Aries Taurus double stellium and her favourite TV show of the ‘90s is Sunset Beach. She’s a fan of the original Aunt Viv and her favourite crisps are Ready Salted.