Where the spreadsheet meets the lookbook.

Born in Sudan and raised bouncing around the globe — Namibia, Malawi, North Korea, Italy — 42 countries in 22 years. The mileage has made me open-minded, analytical and quietly creative, with a habit of looking for beauty in the smallest things.

Most evenings I cook traditional Iranian rice pudding, picked up after visiting my father who worked there for a year. To relax, I do Japanese sashiko embroidery. With friends I run a small multicultural recipe swap — I've taught foreign hands how to make my mum's classic New Year's breakfast and learned to make masala chai in return. My obsession with coffee makes me very Italian.

I trace my driven mindset to my mum, who left her home as a refugee and returned to become the first woman to receive inheritance in the form of land. The nerdier hobbies come from my older brother, who taught me to play video games and code — probably why I'm obsessed with Excel.