Laide’s story doesn’t begin on a film set. It begins in the quiet, disciplined world of aerospace and government service — years spent inside NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the halls of the U.S. Department of State, where precision mattered and every decision carried weight.
It was there, managing complex projects for institutions that shape nations, that she learned the discipline of building something bigger than herself. But the stories she carried — of home, of Nigeria, of the people and cultures rarely given the global stage they deserved — never left her.