1. Civic Dialogue & Structural Depolarisation
- The Highland Circle (Inverness, UK | Co-Founder)
- The Focus: Designing and facilitating structured, face-to-face community dialogue safe spaces [432837/].
- The Impact: Successfully bringing local citizens together to constructively navigate highly polarized contemporary issues (such as regional immigration and community shifts) by deliberately pulling participants away from toxic online comment forums and back to real-world human connection [432837/].
- Read the reflections: [Link to an Aeon of Love post about community or listening].
- De Voorkamer & “No Seat at the Table” (Utrecht, NL | Lead Facilitator)
- The Focus: Moderating emotionally charged civic dialogues using creative storytelling frameworks.
- The Impact: Partnered with the Utrecht cultural hub De Voorkamer and the No Seat at the Tablegraphic novel initiative to lead community-wide discussions focused on the local and global impacts of gentrification, urban development, and housing displacement.
2. Grassroots Neighborhood Design & Youth Engagement
- Wishing Well West (Utrecht, NL | Creative Project Manager, 2017–2019)
- The Focus: Orchestrating multi-ethnic community development and social integration programs in Utrecht’s diverse Lombok district.
- The Impact: Commanded the design and execution of the Good Food Club, an active program utilizing cross-cultural communal cooking and dining to build trust and melt boundaries between local Dutch residents, refugees, and immigrants. Concurrently designed targeted activities to build civic awareness and food sustainability knowledge among neighborhood youth.
- The Cereol Fabriek (Utrecht, NL | Community Space Coordinator)
- The Focus: Cultivating cultural programs that bind communities together.
- The Impact: Managed community engagement systems within a beautifully repurposed historic industrial factory, connecting local arts initiatives directly with surrounding neighborhoods to expand public access to the arts.
3. Public Policy, Actionable Research & Social Enterprise Leadership
- Scottish Rural Communities Policy Review (Scotland | Research Co-Author)
- The Focus: Translating lived local community realities into actionable state policy.
- The Impact: Co-authored a major independent research review published directly by the Scottish Government (conducted via Science Ceilidh in partnership with SRUC and UHI). The project evaluated community-led local development mechanisms to build equity across rural and island infrastructure.
- Community Knowledge Matters (Scotland | Project Researcher)
- The Focus: Operational logistics and infrastructure for peer-to-peer national knowledge networks.
- The Impact: Spearheaded the event logistics, financial tracking, and operational framework for the national CKM gatherings in Inverness, amplifying the voices of rurality across Scotland.
- Clachworks CIC / Inverness Tool Library (Inverness, UK | Board Director)
- The Focus: Sustainable asset sharing and eco-friendly regional infrastructure.
- The Impact: Served as a director steering the strategic mission of Clachworks, supporting open-access workshop spaces, community tool sharing, and local resilience initiatives in the Highlands.
4. Civil Rights, Advocacy & Intersectional Storytelling
- Keti Koti Utrecht Committee (Utrecht, NL | Committee Secretary)
- The Focus: Managing civil rights awareness and large-scale public action.
- The Impact: Led the secretarial operations, community coordination, and logistical management for the annual Dutch slavery commemoration festival Keti Koti Utrecht.
- Global Girl Project — “More Than One Voice” (Global | Project Volunteer)
- The Focus: Amplifying leadership narratives from across the Global South.
- The Impact: Supported the fundraising and publication coordination for an illustrated anthology dedicated to showcasing the leadership journeys of marginalized girls worldwide.
- The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers (Europe | Creative Consultant & Host)
- The Focus: Performance-led community building.
- The Impact: Structured live storytelling performance events to foster deeper cross-cultural awareness and mutual respect.