Academia offers me many lessons, including lessons in erasure, rejection and in core racial capitalism of knowledge production. Having worked in significant policy research think tanks in elite academic circles, as a non PhD researcher it taught me the raw value of power, as it shows one’s place. Including from theory building activist academia. Thank you for these lessons, as it has shaped my thinking on knowledge production which feeds into the global policy architecture.

It makes me a sharper ESG/Policy/Strategy consultant having had these punches below the belt. I am happy to be in the season of life that I am now, that I focus on impact through venture building in the ESG community.