Over the past 17 years her work has taken on significant proportions moving through festivals, conferences, libraries, mental health, foster care, refugee and prisons services alongside schools where she does most of her work. Her skills allow her the diversity of Performing and facilitating workshops, as well as teaching and creating collaborative projects. The foundations she draws on for Professional Storytelling are African, but she includes the use of inspirational stories and figures from around world in her work, as well as writing and presenting her own stories. A long-term study of African history enables her to teach and share the factual history of this diverse continent using a visual exhibition she developed as well as through storytelling.

Her work has covered the greater portion of London with her craft being taken to national and international forums, across England and including Ireland, Jersey, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Tanzania. Increasingly, she is asked to provide training for teachers and play workers and is currently employed as a trainer for the National Children’s Bureau, working nationally to empower educators to use Storytelling more effectively as a creative teaching tool.

In 1998 she met the considerable challenge of co-founding Evwreni (pronounced A-reny) Productions. A programme designed to develop the skills and work experience of Black artists. As trainer and coordinator her rooted experience in education proved invaluable for supporting new artists in the development their skills: as workshop facilitators, trainers and teachers. Out of this work grew KORI Arts, a Youth Programme for 8-17 year olds based in the Borough of Haringey in North London which Odiri manages. It was founded in 2002 and focuses on the use of the Arts to develop young people’s skills, broaden career options and provides self development opportunities and an understanding of real community.

In 2005 Odiri became project Manager for a charity named Camden Crossroads at which she focused on creating a Young Carers Project. It is now a flagship project providing an essential service for Young Carers and their families in Camden.

Odiri remains fully committed to her own self-development and is pursuing new ways of building on the work she has achieved internationally. As an African born abroad she feels it is important to be a proactive inspirational artist in the Diaspora, finding it equally necessary to take skills gathered and tried in the West, to support and share with communities in Africa: especially young people. She also hopes to publish her well-used stories, rhymes and poems and devote to further time to writing in the future.