Full-time Freelance Creative Consultant
(2025 - Present)

As of Summer 2025, I work full-time as a freelance Creative Consultant. At present, I work primarily with three clients:

Consultant Creative Strategist for pre-seed startup ‘Jely’. Responsibilities involve designing growth tactics, developing sales methods, developing brand story + messaging + TOV, website redesign, and managing and directing content strategy + production

Fractional Brand Manager for seed startup ‘Kore Labs’. Responsibilities include brand architecture, web design, client testimonials, content production, key messaging, and event organisation.

Content Consultant for Jumpstart. Responsibilities include soft-skill advice, portfolio tailoring, interview assistance, and strategy planning for young grads starting a creative career.

Software used: Figma, Airtable, Google Suite, Canva, Webflow, ChatGPT, Lemlist, Dropbox, Framer

Sample strategic documents written for Jely

Sample strategic documents written for Jely

Content + Community Manager for Onstage
(2025)

I worked as the Content and Community Manager at Onstage (formerly Focal) for six months. Onstage delivers Europe's largest Demo Day, and we worked with thousands of startups and hundreds of top VC firms. Whilst there, I:

Oversaw their total rebrand, including website wire-framing and redesign, logo redesign, name change, and all associated rebrand comms

Set up automations and controlled comms to founder community and 300+ high profile partner VCs, including Sequoia, Balderton + Cherry for Europe’s biggest Demo Day

Creation + distribution of bespoke business + tech content to 15K+ newsletter and 10K+ LI following (see right - some of the interviews I conducted with founders in our network)

PR research + thought leadership resulting in features in Forbes, Tech Funding News and Startups Magazine

I went through all of Onstage's data to find a PR-worthy angle which was published in Forbes early this year

Growth marketing resulting in 260% increase in socials impressions

Designed holistic narrative, content strategy, and channel strategy for the brand. Role spanned from initial creative conception, to production oversight, to final edits, to marketing strategy.

Software used: Figma, Airtable, Google Suite, MailChimp, Canva, Webflow, ChatGPT, Lemlist

Hardware used: Rode Wireless Pro mics, Go-Pro 13

Content I created at Onstage - a fun day spent testing the products of our startups!

Content Editor for Zero Gravity
(2022 - 2024)

I worked as the sole Content Editor at Zero Gravity for two and a half years with an amazing team. Zero Gravity delivers educational justice for students from low-opportunity backgrounds, supporting them with university applications, career placement, and scholarships. I spearheaded the content team, and in 2023, lead my team to win the CogX 'Voice of Gen Z' award. During my time there, I:

Produced co-branded content with clients such as HSBC, Mercedes F1, Snapchat, Christie’s Auction House, and KPMG

Designed the holistic narrative, content strategy, and channel strategy. I worked from initial creative conception, to production oversight, to final edits, to marketing and distribution (including paid ads + SEO)

Managed the content calendar and production schedules of the creative team (Social Media Manager, Graphic Designer and Videographer), ensuring that deadlines were met, budgets were managed, and projects were on-brand

Sourced + interviewed over fifty students from low-opportunity backgrounds with the aim of uplifting marginalised voices. I brought the concept of the 'photo essay' to Zero Gravity when I first started, which allowed me to meet many incredible students across the country. This remains my proudest achievement at Zero Gravity.

Alongside the photo projects, I also planned + directed huge branding activations - from an enormous social mobility football match (which lead to Zero Gravity signing Rolls-Royce as a partner, year-long goal of theirs) ...

... to a football style 'signing' of our new intern cohort...

... to an epic challenge I set for our Campus Ambassadors, that was part Taskmaster, part Race Across the World. Entitled 'The Great Ambassador Race', I sent ten Ambassadors across the UK to spread the mission of Zero Gravity, with some hairy and silly challenges along the way. This not only doubled applications for the next year's Ambassador cohort, but was spotted by Teach First who signed a partnership with Zero Gravity off the back of our innovative content.

Software used: Figma, Airtable, Google Suite, Canva, ChatGPT

Hardware used: Rode Wireless Pro mics, Rode Lav mics, Panasonic S5 Mark II

Mercedes F1 sharing photographs + interviews I'd conducted with our Scholars

Mercedes F1 sharing photographs + interviews I'd conducted with our Scholars

Social mobility football match, in partnership with entrepreneur Peter Wood + sponsored by Liquid Death.

Social mobility football match, in partnership with entrepreneur Peter Wood + sponsored by Liquid Death.

Directing + interviewing Pelumi for a fundraising documentary

Directing + interviewing Pelumi for a fundraising documentary

Shooting Betty Ogundipe's 'Love/Fight' opening night at Tache

Shooting Betty Ogundipe's 'Love/Fight' opening night at Tache

Excerpt from Clash Magazine press piece featuring my photos

Excerpt from Clash Magazine press piece featuring my photos

A copy of 'Glasgow Tinder Poetry'

A copy of 'Glasgow Tinder Poetry'

Assorted Commercial Freelance
(2021 - Present)

Since I was at university, I've undertaken a range of commercial project-based work for some super cool clients. Here's a sample:

★ (2026) Producer and co-host of 'Close Readings' podcast, fully funded by The Roundhouse

★ (2025) Gallery photographer for Tache Gallery (portraiture and event photography for artists Betty Ogundipe, Kate McClenaghen + Alison Wing Yin Poon, and curator Catherine Li)

(2024) Photography Exhibited in Helena Safari’s ‘Technicolour Dreams’ at Espacio Gallery

(2024) Promotional Photography for musician Emmeline: Featured in NME, Clash Magazine, DIY Magazine, Line of Best Fit Magazine, and the Royal Albert Hall website

(2023) Promotional Photography for clothing brands Pieute and Christopher Kane/More Joy

(2023) Self-Published charity poetry book ‘Glasgow Tinder Poetry’ which raised £500 for charity Refuweegee

(2020 - 2023) Content Editor + Content Contributor at music publication Texture Magazine

(2020 - 2023) Photo-Essayist at Sunstroke Magazine

(2020 - 2021) Media Director + Content Contributor at The Isis Magazine

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