July, 2025
Between wrapping up my summer internship at Xbox, planning and hosting a full-scale U.S. Gala for Ntha Foundation, and relaunching my first book By the End of Your Teens — I found myself teetering on the edge of burnout more than once. I was trying to do it all.
Twelve Weeks at Microsoft
From Evaluation Synthesis to Business Development Management Reflections from a Summer at Xbox, by Nthanda
Lessons
After over a decade working across public, nonprofit, and multilateral systems — from the grassroots to the United Nations Headquarters — I’ve come to understand that development is rarely about what we do. It’s about how we think. And whom we center.
