Elizabeth Shawa-Mangani, a 2019 MMEG grantee from Malawi, is a lecturer in strategic diplomacy and research practice at the University of Johannesburg’s Johannesburg Business School, Centre for Public Policy and African Studies, and a research fellow at the University of Pretoria, where she is working with the Faculty of Humanities on a development studies project titled "the Youth Unemployment Crisis, Land Reform, and Agriculture." Elizabeth is an accomplished development practitioner, with a 15-year track record in a career that spans community development, academia, research, and youth activism.
A youth advocate on various platforms, including the African Democracy Forum, Mandela Institute of Development Studies (MINDS), World Youth Forum, and African Youth Networks Movement (AYNM), Elizabeth has published in reputable peer-reviewed journals and national newspapers on cross-cutting youth and development issues.
