Talks & Gatherings

This week I joined a delegation of African Diaspora leaders on Capitol Hill for an AGOA-focused day of advocacy. The convening was organized by ONE Campaign and the African Diaspora Network, and over the course of the day, our group met with five offices: Senators Jim Risch, Raphael Warnock, Chris Coons, and Angela Alsobrooks, and Representative Terri Sewell directly. I came into the day with a clear angle. I wanted to speak from inside the agri-food systems I work across in

The excerpt you just listened to conveys my final words at the second edition of Graft Africa's Common Grounds Forum, where investors, researchers, agricultural and food systems practitioners, and institutional leaders in global development convened to discuss the urgent matter of unlocking diaspora-linked capital and non-financial capabilities to transform Africa's agricultural and food systems.