I’m working somewhere incredibly rewarding right now where I can sample many projects across the UAE on multiple capacities, sometimes leading, but also sometimes coming in for a short-term consultancy gig. Through these projects I got to learn the ins and outs of many industries but also got to understand what’s missing. We rely so much in the UAE on foreign consultancies and I’d love the next stage of my career to be about coming together with the many brilliant minds we have here at home who know our needs as a community more intimately and connect them through a “consortium” type collective to these leading projects.

I only recently moved back to the UAE 2 years ago after spending almost a decade in New York. Reconnecting to the UAE has been an interesting challenge— where can I find people to learn from/ admire/ cool people who can honestly just be an extension of knowledge and talents I’ll never possess? I had to be very adventurous to find the people who have since become my community and chosen family. I heard about 1833 from one such friend. I don’t know what I have to offer honestly besides this frame of mind keen on hanging out with smart, creative people and coming up with crazy new ideas with.

I work as a strategist but I’m also a practicing artist — I’m also a bit of a book nerd.