PRESS KIT
General Bio
Aliko was born and raised in Seattle ,Washington to a French Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish mother and a Caribbean father. Aliko is a first generation American, trans male, Blaxk, Jewish, Arabic, bilingual entrepreneur and producer. Aliko is the Founder and director of Our Living Design Studio and We Are You Productions.
Aliko is a coach, producer, designer, and speaker, and cultural thought leader. Through all of his businesses, events, expertise, and intersecting identities, he is able to live out his dedication to carving out space for our humanity through his work.
Business Bio
Aliko is the Founder and Director of Our Living Design Studio (OLDS), a Seattle-based digital design firm creating brands, businesses, and experiences that matter. Based on Coast Salish Lands with an international reach, OLDS partners with founders and organizations to lead full-suite brand and business development in service of a future worth inhabiting.
As a coach, producer, designer, and cultural thought leader, Aliko brings a deeply human-centered approach to personal development, business development and design. Through all of his businesses, events, expertise, and intersecting identities, he is able to live out his dedication to carving out space for our humanity through his work.
Keynote Bio
Born and raised in Seattle to a French Jewish mother and Caribbean father, Aliko Weste is a first-generation American, trans, Black, Jewish coach, producer, designer, and cultural thought leader. He is the founder and director of several Pacific Northwest–based businesses and creative projects rooted in community, imagination, and collective care.
Over the past eight years, Aliko has collaborated closely with somatic therapists, activists, scholars, and wisdom keepers—relationships that have profoundly shaped his commitment to neo-indigenous thought and embodied action. Through his intersectional lived experience and work as an entrepreneur, community builder, and producer, Aliko offers a rare and necessary lens on the history of capitalism, the erosion of belonging, and the path back to collective wholeness.
