Nonny Mbathane

Nonny Maphoka Mbathane is an international undergraduate student from Johannesburg, South Africa. Nonny is double majoring in Psychology and Gender Studies, and minoring in Childhood Studies at Rutgers Camden.

She is also a first-generation student, who holds a Diploma in Human Resources Management from Damelin College in South Africa; she is currently pursuing her second qualification. Growing up in a small township, Bekkersdal in the West Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa; Nonny aspired to transcend through her circumstances of poverty and navigating life as a young girl who lost both parents by the age of 7.

Nonny is determined to do work that centers the integrity, self-organized community care and the inherent power of Black and Brown communities.