Education
She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She attended high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and subsequently studied Bioinformatics at the University of Auckland followed by a Master of Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge.
Career
She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, a memoir about growing up in Botswana, was published in March 2008. Her second book, Big Like Coca-Cola, is about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome orphans.
She is an ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
She was on Wired"s 2012 Smart List of Fifty People Who Will Change The World.