Writing

Traversing Your Terrible Twenties

In Traversing Your Terrible Twenties, Nthanda reflects on her twenties with honesty, vulnerability, and wisdom. From love and loss, to career choices, family, faith, success, and forgiveness โ€” each chapter distills the joy and heartbreak of a decade into lessons that will resonate far beyond it.

Feminine Silence

Feminine Silence is part memoir, part manifesto, part love letter to the women and men who have shaped me. Across its chapters, I explore what it means to lead as โ€œthe first,โ€ why meritocracy is not enough, how culture shapes womanhood, and what it will take to build futures that are truly unbound.

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 โ€” I found myself teetering on the edge of burnout more than once. I was trying to do it all.

Lessons

After over a decade working across public, nonprofit, and multilateral systems โ€” from the grassroots to the United Nations Headquarters โ€” Iโ€™ve come to understand that development is rarely about what we do. Itโ€™s about how we think. And whom we center.