Culture, connection and futures otherwise.

Hi, I'm Zaisha. A multi-disciplinary practitioner working with Afro-indigenous and diasporic arts and ontologies as technologies for repairing connection and constructing a world on different terms.

My practice weaves together diasporic cultural inquiry, archiving, and storytelling with alternative systems advocacy and design — to repair connection for the African diaspora to self, community, land, and ancestry, and in that, offer alternative ways of being that make radically different futures possible.

This website is less a portfolio, more a living record of a personal and professional journey guided by a search for truth, connection and freedom.

In thinking about what I wish to say through my work — and how I wish to say it — three threads have run across almost every paid and passion-driven project I've undertaken. When I think about what matters most to me, these things have remained consistent for as long as I can remember. It feels true, now, to call them constants.

Connection

Repairing connection to self (purpose, identity & expression), community, ancestry, land and possibility to me, is the foundation to creating worlds we wish to belong to.

Culture

Cultural arts are a cure for connection, a call to togetherness and the technology with which we can imagine and remember worlds we’ve never lived in.

Change

To the systems and structures that shape our lives, the stories we tell about what is possible, and the collective power it takes to imagine and build a world that works better for all of us.

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MY WORK
A selection of my professional and personal work that showcases my practice across connection, culture and change.
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Rooted by Design
Director, Strategy & Project Lead
A Joyful Project
Project Lead
Pitchsmiths
Founder & Director
Traditional Land Practices
Student
Sounds of the Diaspora
Researcher, DJ & Percussionist
Hackney Run Club
Founder
Life Design
Author
BLVCK+WHITE
Founder, Curator & Producer