Who in the world am I? Ah, thats the great puzzle”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
ABOUT ME: Who Am I? A Journey Through Wonderland
For over two decades, I have worked in social justice—supporting marginalised communities, challenging systems that fail those they were meant to serve, and reimagining new possibilities. My work is driven by creativity, imagination, and the belief that change happens when we refuse to accept "the way things are."
I am the Founder and CEO of Pathways to Independence UK (PTI UK), a social purpose organisation with a diverse portfolio spanning:
✺ Specialist supported accommodation for young people.
✺ Community-focused initiatives promoting equity and inclusion.
✺ Programs designed to amplify young people's voices and influence within the systems that shape them.
Since 2003, PTI UK has supported thousands of young people who have experienced disadvantage and isolation, helping them to build futures that reflect their strengths, identities, and aspirations.
Our work is rooted in social and relational justice, equity, inclusive practice and system-level change, emphasising the interconnectedness of individuals, relationships, and communities. By strengthening these connections, we create opportunities for young people to thrive in environments that value their voices and contributions.
“My real journey started with Pathways. This is when I felt I could really be the person I wanted to become. Pathways helped me see the bright light, see the pathway clearly. I felt like I was going from zero to something, from dark to light and from emptiness to fulfilment.”
Learn More about the work of Pathways To Independence UK
✩ One Future Different Pathways ✩
“The country I come from is a beautiful place but let me tell you one thing about that place. Every time I remember my country I cry, and all the bad memories flow like a river in my head, and I find it hard to control myself. But always, at Pathways, I have some people who were there for me”
“The best way I can describe Pathways is as a family: a mother – caring and kind, a father – offering direction and guidance, a brother and sister who I can chat to and share my fears and hopes with. A Family….”
Alice’s Wonderland: Exploring Identity & Disrupting Narratives
More recently, I founded Alice’s Wonderland Ltd. — a creative platform for:
✩ Storytelling and exploring neurodivergent identity.
✩ Challenging mainstream narratives and disrupting traditional ways of thinking.
✩ Rethinking systems, identity, and belonging through imagination, curiosity, and a double empathy approach.
Alice’s Wonderland is a space for creativity, neurodivergent-led thought leadership, critical resistance, and narrative reclamation - bringing together thinkers, creators, leaders and change-makers who see the world differently and want to reshape it on their own terms.
Wonderland is where imagination meets justice: a space to rethink systems, reclaim narratives, and centre neurodivergent voices in leadership, culture, and community. It blends thought leadership, storytelling, and creativity to reshape outdated structures and open new possibilities.
In addition, I am active on neurodivergent-focused strategic boards and neurodiversity-affirming platforms, ensuring that neurodivergent voices and lived experience shape policy, services, systemic change and cultural reform. I work to advance neuroaffirmative, relational, kinship-oriented and epistemically just approaches across social, health, and education systems - reimagining outdated structures so they better serve those they were never designed for.
What Wonderland Means to Me
✩ Like Alice in Wonderland, I have spent my life questioning the world as it is and imagining what it could be.
✩ Thinking differently about identity, belonging, and the systems that define us.
✩ Disrupting norms and reimagining possibilities.
✩ Truth-telling. Telling stories with courage, truth and honesty
✶ I believe in the interconnectedness of all things—that we build strength through connection, not separation and division ✶
My vision is
✶ a world that prioritises connection, community, identity, and belonging
✶ a world built on story, justice, and relationship
✶ a world where curiosity leads, and neurodivergence is recognised as a source of wisdom, creativity and joy.
— A Wonderland. ✩ ✩ ✩
“Still she haunts me phantomwise
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.”
Lewis Caroll, Through the Looking Glass,
(1871)
“I could tell you my adventures–beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
