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Policy briefs, impact reports, peer-reviewed papers and institutional citations. Every item lives here, with a link out only where the work was published by someone else.

  1. Airbnb.org

    Airbnb.org 2023 Impact Report

    Collaborated with Airbnb.org to house 2,000 African students displaced by the war in Ukraine.

  2. United Nations & Ukrainian Government

    Africans in Ukraine, Humanitarian Needs Overview

    Researched and designed a comprehensive intervention for roughly 150 African students stranded by the war. Submitted to the UN and the Ukrainian Government, and supported by grassroots organisations, it facilitated their evacuation.

  3. Nature Human Behaviour

    Fleeing Ukraine's borders

    A first-hand account of the unequal treatment of refugees, published in a peer-reviewed journal to spotlight systemic gaps in humanitarian response.

  4. Global Citizen

    The discrimination African students faced in Ukraine

    A documented escape from Kyiv as a Zimbabwean-born student doctor, alongside the work of assisting stranded students.

  5. Policy brief

    Third Country Nationals Policy Brief

    Examines the roughly 89,000 third-country university students who fled Ukraine, including 1,000 African students who endured ten months of disrupted education, and how miscommunication between states produced inequitable treatment.

  6. Referenced by UNESCO

    Africans in Ukraine Impact Report

    The data foundation for campaigns to reintegrate African students into Ukrainian universities post-war. Referenced by the press and featured by UNESCO.

  7. Glacie Health with Dr. Rumbi

    The Self Advocacy Roadmap

    A researched, accessible guide equipping women to advocate for themselves in healthcare settings.

  8. UK Parliament

    House of Commons record

    The situation of African students displaced from Ukraine, raised in the UK Parliament.

  9. Reuters

    Education in limbo for African students who fled Ukraine

    Feature reporting drawing on the evacuation and reintegration work.

  10. Brookings

    The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows racism has no boundaries

    Analysis by Rashawn Ray referencing the treatment of Black students at the border.

  11. Forced Migration Review

    How Black African students experienced forced displacement from Ukraine

    Peer-reviewed documentation of the experience and the policy failures behind it.

  12. US Mission to the United Nations

    Remarks at the 11th Annual Women of Power National Summit

    Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield's remarks to the Black Women's Roundtable referencing the crisis.

  13. Xi, 2023, academic journal

    Compassion and National Interest

    Race, culture and politics behind the reception of refugees of the Ukraine war, citing this account.

  14. Balogun, 2023

    Refugees Separated by the Global Color Line

    Europeanness, whiteness and sameness in the reception of refugees, citing this work.

  15. Shoppe BlackMay 2025

    The Cowboy Carter Economy: Who Profits When Black Culture Moves the Market?

    With Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé reasserts authorship over a genre Black artists helped birth and proves, again, that culture is capital. The cultural impact did not stop at the sonic. It came with boots, fringe, braids and an economic boom.

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