She has appeared on Design shows such as “Showhouse” on Ireland’s national television network RTÉ, for several seasons. She won the People’s choice award in INDEX exhibition, Dubai for the contemporary Majlis design. She has also written 7 successful children’s books under the series ”The Adventures of Chee & Dae ”. The first book has been translated into Arabic & Urdu. Her book ‘Tach and the Cosanthor’ won the ‘Viewers choice award’ by TCK publishing. Her short documentary titled “The Story of the Storyteller” won the best short documentary at the GUTech short film category. She took TWT to the Finals in Richard Branson’s VOOM 2016 competition.
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10918|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^Saniya Chughtai|description^null” name=”Saniya Chughtai” pos_in_org=”Founder and CEO”]Saniya is a Serial Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, Children’s Author and Interior Architect.[/ult_team]
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10920|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edward Cooper|description^null” name=”Edward Cooper” pos_in_org=”Education Advisor”]
Edward is passionate about children’s education in its widest, most holistic form.
[/ult_team]He believes everyone’s future will be brighter if we can get our children’s education right today, and above all else children’s social and emotional learning. Edward is delighted to support the ground-breaking work of The Wadi Tribe, drawing upon his experience first as a journalist and, since 1997, as a teacher of primary and secondary students, teacher-trainer, school principal, management advisor, and external school evaluator. Born in England, Edward has travelled and worked around the globe and counts as his highest achievement his three young children who are doing their best – against the odds – to teach him how to be a better parent and person!
[ult_team img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10921|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/4.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brendan Mc Kittrick|description^null” name=”Brendan Mckittrick” pos_in_org=”Advisor”]Brendan is an established executive who has worked in over 12 countries across many fields of expertise.[/ult_team]
Brendan says that he never considers The Wadi Tribe to be work as its fun and rewarding to see so many people benefit from the stories and the Social Emotional Learning programmes. Brendan is a life-long member of the GAA and has played football and hurling with many clubs over four continents on his travels, and says that it’s community based approach makes it the greatest sporting organisation on earth. He is sure that Tach the Hurler will definitely get to visit more GAA clubs worldwide than he has!
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10949|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/TWT-team-pictures-1.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^Urooj Azmi|description^null” name=”Urooj Azmi” pos_in_org=”TWT Production Head”]Urooj is an award-winning filmmaker, new media journalist and communications specialist.[/ult_team]
She graduated from Northwestern University with a BSc. degree in Media Industries & Technology and a certificate in civic engagement. She is passionate about creating content that brings underrepresented communities to screen through impactful storytelling.
Urooj has over 6 years of experience in various facets of the media industry. She has worked with media organisations such as Al Jazeera and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and has also led the development of innovative media production capacities for multiple startups and government entities in Pakistan. She has won several awards for her work including the Mark of Excellence Award by the South Asian Journalist’s Association.
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10924|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3-1.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^3|description^null” name=”Kieren Knapp” pos_in_org=”Senior Editor & Script Writer”]Meet Kieren, The Wadi Tribe’s editor extraordinaire![/ult_team]
Born in London but raised in Oman, Kieren has spent much of his life in the desert, climbing sand dunes, exploring date plantations and chasing sunsets! Kieren’s love of adventure and creativity has been vital to The Wadi Tribe’s continuing success story! Kieren has a BA English w/ Creative Writing (Hons) and loves reading, live music and swimming.
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” title_text_typography=”” image=”id^10928|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/TWT-team-pictures.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^TWT team pictures|description^null” name=”Alizeh Chughtai” pos_in_org=”Content Creator & Social Media Manager”]Meet Alizeh, The Wadi Tribe’s creative social media expert.[/ult_team]
Alizeh was born in Ireland and is currently studying ‘Media and Communications’ in London. She hopes to become a public speaker some day and an accomplished author! She also has her own brand called ‘Chuggy’, fun notebooks to embrace your uniqueness.
She loves reading, running and loves animals especially dogs!
[ult_team team_img_grayscale=”off” img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10925|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/4-1.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^Arifa Sayla|description^null” name=”Arifa Sayla” pos_in_org=”Senior Illustrator”]Arifa is an illustrator, cartoonist and a designer who loves to visualize everything![/ult_team]
She lives in her own world of colors and characters, and believes to give happy endings to every picture, being it a cartoon or her real life. Born in UK, brought up in Pakistan and recently moved to Canada, she has multiple exposures of cultures which helps her shape her own illustration style. She loves to socialize and cook, but above all, to draw. As a kid she didn’t like to read, pages full of words haunted her so she decided to make it easy for the next generation and became an illustrator. Her son Mustafa keeps her energies high, and is always excited to look forward to his mothers new books.
[ult_team img_hover_eft=”” social_icon_effect=”on” social_links=”%5B%7B%22social_icon_url%22%3A%22%23%22%7D%5D” social_icon_size=”24″ divider_effect=”” image=”id^10926|url^https://www.thewaditribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^5|description^null” name=”Dave Alvarez” pos_in_org=”Senior Illustrator”]Dave Alvarez has been a character designer, a storyboard artist and a visual developer for WB Animation[/ult_team]
Group, WB Animation, Disney TV, Nickelodeon and others. His work can be seen in shows like Scooby Doo and Guess Who, The Looney Tunes or Spongebob Squarepants.