Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Victoria spent the first sixteen years of her life steeped in the ecology and socio-political context of her Island Nation. With a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father, the Caribbean will forever be her home in a way that home is the diasporic body embedding within her a language of revolution and spirit. Growing up in “post-colonial” Jamaica and witnessing not only the beauty of the landscape but the oppression that people still lived under allowed her to question why it is that the post-colonial, never became the de-colonial. Why did the categories of race, class and gender still exist on the island today and what does it truly mean, in the words of Bob Marley—“to emancipate [ourselves] from mental slavery”? These questions, as well as the oceanic reverberations of the Caribbean are something born and alive in Victoria’s being and practice today.

At the age of sixteen, she migrated to Toronto, Canada where she completed her high school education as well as her previous trainings with the Royal Academy of Dance in Ballet, before exploring other forms of embodied somatic movement that felt more aligned with the body’s relationship to space. Victoria pursued and completed her Bachelor’s of Arts and Sciences at the University of Toronto with a Specialist in Literature and Critical Theory and a double minor in Urban Studies and Human Geography. After her BA, she moved to London, England where she achieved her MA at Goldsmiths’ University of London with the Forensic Architecture’s ‘Centre for Research Architecture’. She was awarded a high distinction for her work on the myco-remediation of toxic oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon. From this work, Victoria was accepted as a Phd candidate at UCL, University of London’s department of the History of Art and Ecology where she worked at the intersections of soil ecologies, colonialism, philosophies of being and the mitigation of climate change.

Alongside her Phd, Victoria worked in the architectural industry living between London, New York and Ghana, where she was able to understand theory as it met practice before making the move in 2021 to live in Accra, Ghana full time to pursue an architectural research project on pre-colonial indigenous design. This particular project was seminal for Victoria in the way that it opened her eyes to a different way of being and designing outside of Western Modernism. This pre-colonial and African/Indigenous way of designing wasn’t just about creating a structure, but creating systems that allowed for embodiment, community and the thriving of the ecological context beyond neoliberal notions of ‘sustainability’.

After the completion of this project, Victoria implemented and currently works with this research in a myriad of ways—through RRA, her architectural-research studio based in decolonizing design; her current teaching career in the Netherlands as a lecturer within various institutions; her artistic dance practice and a new writing project which she is currently dedicating her time.