✹ Worked at AWID as the Information, Communications and Media manager.

✹ Co-creating the Flourish retreat, a trauma-informed, care-centered feminist space supporting the wellbeing and sustainability of grassroots activists in Southern Africa.

✹ A student in Gender Fail’s Publishing Now: Zine Critical Theory and Group Anthology. 

✹ Sponsored Sex of the Nation Address (SONA), a one-day celebration and exploration of sexuality, kink, queerness, gender and embodied joy.

• Facilitated the panel ‘SA’s sex life’

✹ Relaunched Hedone’s website, a community grounded in collective care, healing and pleasure. We publish and collaborate with our community in creating a living archive of Black queer life.

✹ Serving on the advisory board of Queerwell.

✹ Joined AWID as the Information, Communications and Media manager.

✹ Began co-creating the Flourish retreat, a trauma-informed, care-centered feminist space supporting the wellbeing and sustainability of grassroots activists in Southern Africa.

✹ Joined and was interviewed by Stoep Collective. 

✹ Facilitated a session for Our Collective Practice’s Narrative Revolution Fellows on the connection between art, resistance work and healing.   

• This led to a 3 month mentorship of the fellows, an artist from Benin.

✹ Completed a course with Sex Tech School. 

✹ Selected to participate in Ukuthula, a 3 day writing workshop in Gqeberha facilitated by vangile gantsho and Moafrika wa Mokgathi. 

✹ Serving on the advisory board of Queerwell.

✹ Content Consultant at The Wikimedia Foundation

• ​Researching and providing insights via surveys and interviews to understand and identify key insights around how community resources materials are perceived and engaged with

• Developing a toolkit that simplifies and amplifies the tone, writing style and terminology used for communicating our community resources in any language

• Applying the toolkit to rewriting existing content, as well as developing new content across Meta and other communications points in collaboration with the Community Resources and Communications departments​

✹ Held a healing space over the conference period of Changing Faces, Changing Spaces, held in Botswana. The space allowed for any attendees to have a soft space to talk, cry, speak about spirituality and healing, or process any triggers that came up within a conference space where many activists were sharing lived experiences.

​✹ NLP Content Writer at Girl Effect

• ​Content and Youth Specialist training NLP systems through content engineering and conversational design.

• Reviewing and creating training data that will be supplied to systems to help. increase their accuracy in understanding inputs from users and providing them with the correct responses.

• Validation & Editing of new system-generated phrases across entities for Q&A, Hindlish and Safeguarding NLPs to be suitable for the target audience

✹ Facilitated RESURJ's annual retreat, holding space. around issues including pleasure, community care, grounding, reconnection and repair. ​

✹ Presented at SexCoachU's Sexual Attitude Reassignment and Restructuring (an experiential event that explores and challenges sexual values, attitudes, feelings and beliefs of sexual health, wellbeing and sexuality professionals.

✹ Serving on the Steering Group of the Black Queer Travel Guide and the Advisory Board of Eyala.

✹ Conversational designer and content strategist at Girl Effect.

• Designing chatbot conversational flows for Big Sis(shortlisted for the GSMA GLOMO Award for Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets).

• Content strategy and prototyping new chatbots for local girl clubs.

✹ Content Engineer and researcher for British Council’s chatbot ‘Learn English on WhatsApp’.

✹ Co-facilitation of Community Identity Workshop for The Q Networq, alongside Courtney Williams, director of A Call for Equity.

✹ Working together with MTV Shuga, UNESCO, South African National AIDS Council, and the Department of Basic Education on promotional content creation for the TV show Breaking the Silence; covering topics such as substance abuse, sexual orientation, sexuality and relationships.

✹ Guest speaker for The Southern African Sexual Health Association's  Masterclass on Interdisciplinary Perspectives On The Diverse Facets Of Sexual Health

• As well as the Masterclass on Adult Sexuality Education – Where Do We Begin?

✹ Communications consultant for Purposeful on the 10th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

• Leading feminist-grounded comms strategies

• Delivering digital marketing campaigns

• Leading content generation pre-, during and post-conference

✹ Serving on the Steering Group of the Black Queer Travel Guide, the Advisory Boards of A Call For Equity and Eyala.

✹ Communications consultant for NACOSA.

• Developing and implementing digital communications strategy, content, activities and key messaging for programmes working with young girls and women.

• Training and mentoring 60+ youth influencers

✹ Lead content creator and strategist for The Angry Africans launch.

✹ Conversational designer and content strategist at Girl Effect.

• Designing chatbot conversational flows for Big Sis.

• TikTok content creation - grew page from 6k - 17k followers in 2 months.

• Content strategy and prototyping new chatbots for local girl clubs.

✹ Working with Facebook to create and engineer content for an educational chatbot.

✹ Training as somatic healer via Somatica Institute.

✹ 2021 cohort of Traversing Liminality Mentorship Programme, founded by Dr Lulu Gwagwa, the CEO of Lereko Investment.

✹ Presented at the following conferences:

• 2021 AWID | Crear, Resistir, Transform: A festival for Feminist Movements: ‘Broadening Pleasure’, a conversation around embodying pleasure in our daily lives.

• YTH Live Global: Presenting on the impact of the NACOSA influencer programme, ‘Our Voices Only: Digital Health co-learning with girls and young women in South Africa’

• WAS 2021: volunteer facilitator of conversations around sexual justice and youth.

✹ Serving on the Steering Group of the Black Queer Travel Guide.

✹ Research and writing within GALA’s Queer Lockdown series:

• Essential workers

• Organisers and activists

✹ Serving on the Advisory Board of A Call For Equity.

✹ Safety, Dignity & Freedom Campaign Coordinator at Iranti, a media-advocacy organisation which advocates for the rights of LGBTI+ persons, with specific focus on lesbian, transgender (including gender non-conforming) and intersex persons in Africa.

✹ Launched community care and pleasure platform Hedone.

• Published the Hedone zine, researching the impact of online gender based violence on how women, femmes, nonbinary and gender non-conforming individuals experience and express different forms of pleasure freely. 

✹ Co-founded uThingo Wothando, a registered feminist content collective. We are grounded in Shine Theory, erotic energy and work together with the intention of investing mutually into each other’s goals. 

✹ Editor of MOXIE, a platform for creations by African women, non-binary and gender-nonconforming individuals.

✹ Workshops, talks and interviews:

• Panel discussion with The Southern African Sexual Health Association discussing Sexual Pleasure in the Pandemic: Human sexual experience within the context of COVID-19.

• Guest on The Clement Manyathela show, discussing ethical porn consumption. 

• Delegate for the Convening for TransDisciplinary Equity Solutions, ideating and writing on how we can expand access to pleasure equitably. 

• Facilitation of Well-being webinar with the Coalition of African Lesbians, in conversation about traditional understandings of care and community, healing and restorative justice, sacred activism, spirituality and environmental justice.

• Co-hosted MOXIE Virtual Showcase with poets, artists and writers to raise funds for The Fruit Basket.

• Co-creation lab with the Soul City Institute to develop Feminist Academy as a learning, creative and knowledge-exchange initiative.

✹ Freelance writing - New Frame.

✹ Programme Consultant in International Justice at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

• Organised a side event at the 15th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 'The Bemba Ruling and Beyond: Accountability for Sexual Violence at the ICC'.

• Organised an international conference as an International Justice Programme Consultant at the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation. The conference, titled 'Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Successes, Challenges, Narratives, and Ommissions' was attended by international lawyers, academics and activists. Report is here.

✹ Co-wrote an article on narratives of sexual violence and accountability with Kelly-Jo Bluen. The article highlights the project findings that more diversified approaches and frameworks to sexual violence ought to be encouraged.

✹ On the research and writing team for the South African Youth Manifesto 2019, a youth mandate to political parties, empowered by Youthlab, a policy think-tank.

✹ Gave a TEDx talk for TEDxCapeTownWomen, entitled Reimagining BDSM.

✹ Workshops:

• Facilitated, 'Free Space: It's time for women to talk about sex' focusing on issues of consent. The workshop was hosted by Iranti, a queer human rights visual media organisation.

• Consent workshops for students at the University of the Free State as part of the student-organised Anti Rape Culture March.

• Appeared in The Sex Positive Interview Sessions speaking on consent.

✹ Radio and TV appearances:

• Daily Thetha - Club culture (and rape culture within the space)

• SA FM - The Challenges Young Women Face Living Life In A Patriarchal World

• Motswako - Sexual health and pleasure

• The Big Debate - Reproductive health

• Power FM - Safe sex and pleasure for queer women