Leadership as stewardship

The value of an opportunity is the responsibility it creates — and what becomes possible for others because of it.

• Leadership as stewardship rather than personal status.
• Build structures that stay useful after the founder has left.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration over solo heroics.
• Treat access to opportunity as the point, not a by-product.
• Engage honestly with institutional history and power.

Selected roles

• African Research Society

  2022 — present

  Co-founder · Chief of Operations

  Founding Vice President → President → Chief of Operations of a youth-led research non-profit connecting students to laboratories, mentorship and collaboration across Africa.

  africanresearchsociety.org ↗

• WiZmed

  2020 — present

  Co-founder & Brand Director

  Leading Africa's largest stethoscope distributor and the WiZmed Foundation; operations, e-commerce and student-equipment access.

  wizmed.co.za ↗

• UCT Global Surgery

  2022 — 2024

  Research Advocacy & Implementation Fellow

  Chaired panels and contributed to strategy for equitable surgical care; ICIGS 2024 first-place intervention against intimate-partner violence.

• Surgical Society, UCT

  2022

  Head of Research

  Founded and formalised the Student Research Apprenticeship programme with the UCT Department of General Surgery.

• Student Curriculum Lekgotla, FHS UCT

  2024 — 2025

  Chief Analyst — Assessment & Performance

  Analysing student performance data and advising on assessment to drive fair, effective curriculum reform.

• Student Parliament, UCT

  2024

  Member · Societies Sub-Council

  Voting member; auditing and supporting new student societies at UCT.

• Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT

  2020 — 2026

  Class Representative & Faculty Mentor

  Elected class representative and liaison across preclinical years; re-elected in 2026 with the highest vote; mentor to first-year medical students.

African Research Society · at a glance

• Founded in 2022 at the University of Cape Town
• Registered non-profit · recognised UCT society
• Backed by 40+ institutions
• 2,000+ students connected to laboratories, training and mentorship
• Interdisciplinary Research Apprenticeship Programme — a 6-month research pathway
• Events featuring Nobel Laureates and African research icons
• Over R600,000 raised for research capacity

Organisational figures reflect the African Research Society's record, not personal attribution. See africanresearchsociety.org.

Recognition

• Mandela Rhodes Scholar

  2025

• Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans

  2025

• Abe Bailey Travel Bursary

  2025

• UCT DSA Individual Student Leadership Award

  2024

• Rising Star Award

  South African Health Excellence Awards

  2024

• Top Medical Equipment Distributor

  MEA Business (WiZmed)

  2023

• Dux, Creston College

  2019

Mostly these remind me of the people who took a chance on me — and who I'm meant to take a chance on next.