About

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

Currently Lead Editor at The Fuller Project, and formerly a Senior Staff Editor at the New York Times and the Editor-in-Chief of the groundbreaking gal-dem magazine. In my journalism practice I focus on human-centered investigations, interview features, profiles, essays and columns on culture, identity, lifestyle and social politics. I have written regularly for a variety of outlets, including the Guardian and Stylist.

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. In 2025, I released a investigative podcast with Free Turn and Wondery+ called The Missing Sister, which re-evaluates the murder of a 20-year-old midwifery student named Joy Morgan, and investigates the culpability of her mysterious church.

Alongside my journalism work, I’m currently developing a pilot with BBC Studios and writing my first novel.

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, winner of the Georgina Henry Award for Innovation in Journalism, winner of the Tenacious Award for journalism, and shortlisted for the prestigious Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism.