Nadine is a feminist writer, poet, and professional working the field of gender-based violence. Nadine has delivered workshops to over 2,300 young people in Edinburgh alone, and trained youth work staff on gender-based violence and young people across Scotland.

She has worked with young people to create theatre on sexual violence, a DVD adaptation of which is used by Rape Crisis workers in schools and youth groups across Scotland. Nadine’s work has particularly focused on the creative participation of young ethnic minority and/or Muslim women, evident in her current project ‘My Big Beating Voice’, a joint project between Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre and Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.

As a poet, Nadine’s poetry pamphlet Still was launched at the Scottish Poetry Library in April 2016, and she has performed her poetry widely, including having solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Just and Audacious Women Festivals. She has also spoken at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Aye Write, Glasgow’s Festival of Literature on her contribution to 404 Ink’s ‘Nasty Women’.

She delivers feminist creative writing workshops and creative workshops in schools on inequality and street harassment, and her particular combination of storytelling and social justice means she often focuses on working with those who experience marginalisation.

Her favourite quote is by Angela Davis; “walls turned sideways are bridges”. This is a philosophy she lives by.