About
Here’s a timeline of significant experiences that contributed to who you may know me as.
2026
April
🌍 Games for Change Games and SDG Summit in Nairobi, Kenya
March
🌍 Roots & Pixels in Kortrijk, Belgium
February
👾 Relooted launch. First game producer credit.
2025
November
🌐 Collecting my digital self here
2024
November
👥 Joined the Game Arts International Network (GAIN) advisory committee
2022
January
📔 Co-authored chapter Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) for Meditative Health Games published in Handbook of Research on Cross-Disciplinary Uses of Gamification in Organizations
2021
May
💼 Started interning at Nyamakop
2020
December
💼 Completed 9 months working as a User Experience Researcher for Open Energy Labs
🎓 BSc Honours Computer Science and Information Systems at Nelson Mandela University
2019
December
🎓 BSc Computer Science and Mathematics at Nelson Mandela University
2018
December
📔 Featured in the book Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play by Meagan Marie
April
🌍 A MAZE. / Berlin 2018 program assistant
March
🗣️ Women in Tech Africa talk about presenting tech principles to a non-tech audience
2017
August
🌍 Feminist leadership residency in Accra, Ghana that made me really like the country. Also saw the Togolese metal band Arka’n live at a pub and it was amazing.
April
💻 Organized NASA Space Apps Challenge Lusaka
2016
September
🗣️ A MAZE. / Johannesburg - #gamedev as a jump start for small African communities
March
🌎 Attended GDC 2016 as a GGJ Scholar. Took part in Train Jam and also spoke on the #1reasontobe panel
2014
July
👩🏽💻 Became a Google Student Ambassador at met cool peeps in Ghana at the GSA Summit
January
🌍 Welcome to Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I used a Telkom payphone once and that truly made me feel like a foreigner.
👾 Organized the first Global Game Jam Lusaka
2013
June
👾 Started a game dev community in Lusaka called Ubongo Game Lab obviously encouraged by Bongohive.
May
💼 Started working as a social media intern at Bongohive. This is where I learned so much about the Zambian and African tech and startup ecosystem. Also met some of the best programmers I know here.
April
👥 Got connected to the Asikana Network at the Zed Hair Show. Before that I was running a hair blog - A rite of passage for many black women on social media at the time.
The before times
Grew up in Lusaka, Zambia. Formative experiences were probably playing video games (mainly DOS games and demo discs) with my brothers and having a great IT teacher in primary school. We never had internet at home but I remember occasionally making web pages in notepad for no reason.