From Corporate Boardrooms to Cultural Reclamation
This journey didn’t start with a dramatic moment. It started with a steady truth I could no longer ignore: my work was meant to reach farther back than my résumé.
For years, I worked in international business and IT project management—high standards, tight timelines, global stakes. I learned systems, precision, and execution. But beneath that structure, another calling kept returning. It came from two places that shape my identity: the soil of Sierra Leone and the marshlands of the Gullah Geechee corridor.
Leaving the corporate world wasn’t a reinvention. It was a retrieval. I began following the record—letters, ledgers, oral history, place names, language, and memory—because too much of our story has been scattered on purpose and misunderstood by design.
That is the work I do now. I trace what was taken, what survived, and what still connects us across the Atlantic.
I am a Diaspora Scavenger: I search the archive and the landscape for the links that still bind separated kin—and I bring what I find back to the people.
The Repairer
of the Breach
Repair of the Breach is our mission to restore what the transatlantic slave trade intentionally fractured—by telling the full truth from the records, honoring African expertise and lineage, and reconnecting diasporic kin across oceans with dignity and purpose.
Truth is the first repair.
01. Fambul Tik
In Krio, Fambul Tik means “Family Tree.” It is more than a phrase—it is the foundation of my work. The tree reminds us that lineage survives even when branches are separated.
Through the documentary Fambul Tik, I explored what it means to reconnect families divided by the Atlantic for centuries. The goal is simple: to show that the ocean did not erase us. It separated us—and separation can be crossed.
02. Kinship
Kinship is not limited to blood. It is shared memory, shared language, and shared struggle.
The connections between the Gullah Geechee people and West Africa are not symbolic—they are historical and lived. Through heritage tours, educational gatherings, and cultural exchange, I work to make those connections visible and tangible.
Repair does not happen in theory. It happens in conversation, in song, in archives opened, and in people meeting again.