Taonesesa Karidza

At 19, Taonesesa Tiwanna Karidza published her first book 'Pain is a Feeling,' an anthology of poems centered around pain. This anthology is a craft to remedy the societal agony taking its toll on humans. As a result, she started hosting mental health workshops under the theme “Pain is a feeling,” and went as far as the women's maximum prison in Zimbabwe in 2017.

She is currently a Law student at the University of Monash, South Africa. She is driven by an absolute passion and very vocal about gender-based violence, education, mental health, and women empowerment. She has also actively participated in safer school campaigns in Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 lockdown, enabling selected schools to kick off safely within the Covid-19 regulations. In her pastime, she loves writing, learning new things, and she is a coffee fanatic.