Years ago I co-founded and ran Nido, a coworking space with on-site childcare — the longest-running of its kind in the United States, and featured in The New York Times. We built it iteratively, with the community we were trying to serve, and it taught me how generous design and stubborn listening can make space for whole new kinds of work.
Nido was the longest-running coworking-with-childcare space in the US, profiled by The New York Times as a model for how work and care can share a roof.
From there I joined OnePay (then Even) as an early employee — the company was forty people when I arrived. I grew with it through a merger and acquisition to a team of more than three hundred, serving millions of users. I worked across operations, data, product feedback and customer experience, and learned how rigour at scale is its own creative practice.
Alongside that I helped run an entrepreneurship collective for female founders — supporting a wide range of small businesses through the slippery, lonely, exhilarating early years of growth. That work convinced me that ecosystems matter as much as ideas.
Today I'm Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Manager at Bath Spa University, where I founded and run Juno House — a student-staffed creative consultancy that earns real commercial income and places students in paid, real-world project work. I also run Go From Zero, a student entrepreneurship programme that meets aspiring founders where they actually are.
I speak regularly at national and international conferences, including IEEC and Advance HE's Employability Symposium, and I'm a growing practitioner in applied AI — using AI tools to accelerate creative, research, and programme-design work in ways that feel useful rather than performative.
Across all of it, the through-line is the same: I build things that help people start things.