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ABOUT ME

I would describe myself in four ways: storyteller; advocacy and campaign strategist; digital media manager; artist. Across a 13-year career, I have worked in a range of fields, primarily within civil society, academia, and the public interest media space. I am passionate about blending deeply researched evidence with creativity and artistic expression to help build more peaceful, just societies. I currently serve as a Steering Committee Member of Corruption Tracker.

Notably, I was Head of Campaigns at Open Secrets, where I began as an intern in 2019 and went on to establish and lead a unit that I conceptualised and built from the ground up. I concluded my tenure at Open Secrets in January 2025, choosing to pursue a new career path focused on digital advocacy, art, and creative storytelling.

Creative Work

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Work Experience

Recent and Current Employment and Board Memberships

Open Secrets |Head of Campaigns (2021-2026)

  • Manage Campaigns unit 
  • Oversee website design, content creation, and SEO to enhance online presence. 
  • Branding: logo design, content librarry anf merchandising to ensure cohesive identity. 
  • Manage multimedia content production: videos, docu-podcasts, and infographics. 
  • Create and manage donation platforms and individual donor programme
  • Strategize and execute social media, campaign, and media plans. 
  • Plan and coordinate events 
  • Project management 
  • Fundraising: donor reports, applications and funder relationship management

Corruption Tracker | Steering Committee Member (2023-current)

  • Strategic oversight 
  • Risk management 
  • Fundraising support 
  • Advocacy and Social Media Support
  • Policy development

10% for All (Member) 2025-Current)

  • Steering Committee: Advocacy and Social Media Support
  • Campaign Strategy Development
  • Campaigner
  • Recruting new member organisations

Politically Aweh (March-May 2025, February 2026-Current)

Freelance Social Media and Digital Engagement Manager

  • Manage and oversee all social media accounts, including content planning, posting, engagement, and performance tracking
  • Write, design and distribute newsletters
  • Develop and execute episode-based campaigns
  • Act as a media liaison
  • Website management
  • Participate in writing rooms, contributing to story development, scripting and narrative direction 
  • Assist and create content on shoot days

Past Employment

Freelance, Internships, Academia and Early Work

Open Secrets

  • Researcher: Advocacy and Investigations (October 2019-May 2021)
  • Intern: Communications and Advocacy (January – October 2019)

International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)

  • Remote Intern (Jun-Nov 2016)

University of Cape Town | Political Studies Department

  • Guest Lecturer (2019)
  • Guest Lecturer POL3030F: Conflict in World Politics (February- June 2020)
  • Guest Lecturer POL1000S: Introduction to Politics B (July December 2020)
  • Research Assistant: Associate Professor Helen Scanlon (UCT)J Jun-Oct 2015

University of Cape Town | Gender Studies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Research Assistant for Professor Rashida Manjoo (United Nations Rapporteur and UCT Professor) Gender and Transitional Justice (October-September 2016)
  • Senior Secretary | Gender Studies Department (2016)

Tutor

  • Research Assistant for Professor Rashida Manjoo (United Nations Rapporteur and UCT Professor) Gender and Transitional Justice (October-September 2016)
  • Senior Secretary | Gender Studies Department (2016)
  • Administration Assistant

Volunteer Work

  • Research Assistant for Professor Rashida Manjoo (United Nations Rapporteur and UCT Professor) Gender and Transitional Justice (October-September 2016)
  • Senior Secretary | Gender Studies Department (2016)
  • Administration Assistant

Selected Publications

Books, Op-eds, Conference Papers and Investigative Journalism and Writing

BOOKS

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS, AND OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“When Born-frees Declare Themselves Unfree: Black Consciousness and Intersectional Feminism as Decolonial Practice for the South African university” – conference paper for conference on Canada’s and South Africa’s TRC’s at the University of Toronto. (Oct 2016)

Michael Marchant, Mamello Mosiana, Ra’eesa Pather and Hennie van Vuuren (2022), The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations who Profit from Impunity, (Jacana Media).

Mamello Mosiana and Michael Marchant (2021, ‘Private Sector’s Role in State Capture’, in Nina Callaghan, Robyn Foley and Mark Swilling (ed.), Anatomy of State Capture, (African Sun Media), pp. 358-373.

 

Fellowships Awards and Grants

  • African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award 2023, Second Runner Up for The Secretary: How Middlemen and Corporations armed the Rwandan Genocide Other Universals Project Fellow (AW Mellon Foundation) (2019- 2021)
  • International Peace Institute (IPI) African Junior Professionals Fellow (2018)
  • National Research Foundation (NRF) Innovation Master’s Scholarship (2017)
  • UCT Deans Merit List (2012; 2013; 2014) 
  • Golden Key Member (2012- current)
  • First Runner Up Anglo American Sowetan Young Communicators Awards (Free State Round); First in Anglo American Sowetan Young Communicators Awards (Motheo District Round); First in Anglo American Sowetan Young Communicators Awards (Bloemfontein Schools Round) (2011) 

Certificates

  • LeadMe Leadership Academy | Management Training Course (2022-2023)
  • Radio Workshop | Podcast Production (2021)
  • Sound Africa and Human Rights Media Centre | Podcasting for Beginners (2020)
  • Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) (2017)

Languages

  • English- (Fluent- First Language): read, write, speak 
  • Sesotho (home language) :  speak, write, read
  • Setswana (home language): speak, read, write
  • Arabic (BA major) :  read, write
  • Afrikaans (NCF- First Additional Language:  read, write

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Writing and Copy Editing 
    Airtable 
  • WordPress Pro
  • Data Journalism
  • Campaign and Social Media Strategy
  • Investigative Research and Writing
  • Podcast production
  • GiveWP Pro
  • Local and Individual Donation Platform and Content Management
  • MailChimp
  • Leadership and Management
  • Canva Pro
  • Annual Report Drafting
  • Digital Marketing 
  • Fundraising 
  • Podcast Production
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Loomly
  • Sendible
  • Descript Pro
  • Buffer
  • Youtube Pro
  • Squarespace
  • Yoast SEO
  • Google Business Account Management
  • Operations and Administration
  • Undergraduate Lecturing
  • English teaching

References are available upon legitimate request. Please see the contact page

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