Nomsa Mwamuka is a researcher, writer, producer and project manager with over 20 years' experience working across various media platforms from film, TV and radio to print, focusing, in particular, on arts events and cultural festivals. Nomsa contributes feature articles to various publications and is the award-winning author of Makeba: the Miriam Makeba Story. She is currently conducting interviews and research for a series of biographical stories documenting the lives of pioneering and influential African women, cultural and political activists, and icons under the working title, Acts of Activism. Farai Mpisaunga Mpofu is co-founder of VIRL Financial Services P/L (est. 2010) and is country director of VIRL Social Foundation (est. 2014). A senior Communications, Marketing and Investor Relations professional, she served in the Insurance and Banking environment for over 20 years. Among her board positions are the Microfinance Association, Women's University in Africa, Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust, Junior Achievement Zimbabwe and St Martin's Convent Primary School. Farai holds a Special Honours degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe and is an alumnus of the British Council leadership and Harvard Executive development programmes. Farai serves as patron of the youth blood donors club, Pledge 25. Wadzanai Garwe is a mother of two wonderful adult children. In her professional life, she is a development practitioner specializing in financial and economic analysis and management and assisting governments in designing community based investment projects. She currently works for Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. She has and previously worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Zimbabwe, Food for the Hungry International in Mozambique, Macpherson Consulting Group in Zimbabwe, and for 13 years was a free-lance consultant working mostly with the International Fund for Agricultural Development. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and an MA in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University.