We avoid ‘a one size fits all’ approach to personal safety and in the ever changing landscape of why and how people experience feeling safe from a physical and mental well being perspective we aim to create identity and trauma focussed approach – especially in communities affected by the impact of white supremacy. To do this we need a range of people to shape our work and reflect the people we work with. Our origins are in journalist safety and we continue to provide support progressive programs to change the dynamic of who gives and delivers safety training.

In designing our workshops and training programmes we blend these together to give you a whole person approach to safety training. All of our collective are experts in their own right and we’re delighted to have them as part of our work.

Ali Baskerville is the founder of ROAAAR as well as a documentary photographer and personal safety trainer based in Birmingham,UK. A former-soldier-turned-photographer, Alison is able to blend her military experience with her career as a conflict photographer to translate into realistic safety training for the media community.

Danni has a multidisciplinary practice consisting of performance art, community engagement, producing while touching on elements of queerness and blackness. Throughout Danni’s work there is a clear connection to understanding and exploring aspects that underpin our society such as; economics, socio-political and environmental elements of life.

Currently Danni is a Co-Founder & the Creative Engagement at CIVIC SQUARE; a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. CIVIC SQUARE works alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future.

Dr. Porterfield is a psychologist at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Porterfield has provided clinical care to adults and children who have experienced war and refugee trauma and torture for over 20 years. She regularly consults on issues pertaining to trauma, including in cases at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and the International Criminal Court and with journalists and human rights organizations.

Dr. Porterfield regularly teaches and works with groups around issues of wellbeing, stress management and team communication. She trained with and continues to teach at the legendary Second City improvisational theater.

Nat has been helping clients to tell their stories through film, tv and the web for 25 years. An early adopter of technology, he can be usually found tinkering with all manner of communications tools and digital intricacies. Through his work he has been able to craft narratives, shape creative ideas and advocate for open source, data driven storytelling.

He runs CoMutiny, a location independent, ‘hacker activist’ led organisation, working with new, existing or loosely formed communities & companies, wherever they are situated. Comutiny works on projects with engagement at their heart, that are characterised by interaction, disruption and innovation.