Ayesha Mukadam

Mukadam works as an education and outreach volunteer at the Oranjezicht City Farm, where she hosts groups from schools all over Cape Town. Her concept of creating a kit for migrants to document the recipes of hope from their countries landed her an invitation to host a workshop on food and memory at the Design for Humanity Summit at Fordham University’s Lincoln Centre campus in New York in June last year. This year she was a finalist for the Rupert Art Foundation’s Social Impact Arts prize with The Long Table Project, which looks at sharing food between diverse groi[s as a way to build connections across geographical and social boundaries.

After working as a creative director at an advertising agency, she branched off to establish Studio Ayesha Mukadam.