I've dedicated myself to helping people bring ideas to life, businesses, gardens, venues. After a graduate program in the UK, I started out supporting an entrepreneur develop a young investment company in the wake of the financial crisis, before setting up a digital studio focused on developing small businesses. I moved to France to set up a café and urban garden in Bordeaux. Along the way, I helped regenerate a church into a music venue, I served a stint as a board member of a Greek NGO trying safe guard an island's natural and cultural heritage and worked with one of Ireland's biggest agricultural co-ops on their sustainability reporting.

I am currently the Development Manager at ACT, a design-led social enterprise based in the West of Ireland. I'm also the Co-operative Development Officer at theNCF, which runs a community music & art space in Ballina.

I am interested in ways of working where wealth stays local, our nature recovers and people know their neighbours. We cannot solve a systems crisis with incremental change. Transitioning to a democratic, place-based economy is our greatest strategic opportunity to tackle inequality, build regional resilience and design local economic systems that properly work for people and protect our natural world.