Sam trained at the University of Roehampton where she now also teaches the Therapeutic Stories Unit, having been a performer and storyteller for over two decades. She is an Executive member of BADth and is currently organising the 2021 conference themed to issues spotlighted by pandemic and Black Lives Matter. Sam works as a Dramatherapist in a primary school with children excluded from mainstream education, and with women at risk of the criminal justice system. Her research interests include: generational trauma connected to colonialism, structural racism, ritual performance as restoration and activism, and heritage object work with her mother’s original Windrush suitcase.

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