Nomaswazi Mthombeni is a PhD fellow at the International Center for Development and Decent work (ICDD) and co-speaker of the BIPoC & Initiative Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) at the University of Kassel. She has many years of work experiences in the activist, academic and research spaces. Her research interests includes but not limited to Gender, Feminist and grassroots movements as well as de/postcolonial frameworks.