Nyasha Duri works for civic technology social enterprise mySociety in the transparency team: helping empower people through the world’s largest open source freedom of information database relied upon by millions worldwide. Additionally, she is developing curriculums and delivering classes for the Black Codher coding bootcamp funded by the West Midlands Authority. Most recently, she's been headhunted for Google, taken on a contract to work on the UK's first largest nationwide database of black network organisations, and performed her poetry for the Dr Maya Angelou inspired The Caged Bird Sings.

Among other roles, she has worked for the British government as well as a Swedish municipality via the EU, led a project for Switzerland based diplomacy & peacebuilding nonprofit the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and assisted an Australian computer science education company with 500,000+ students. At the California Clean Energy (VC) Fund, using her experience working in startups, she contributed to gender equality & equity as CSR for its Asia networks, the LG Chem Battery Challenge, and Global Climate Action Summit.

She also serves as Chair of the Board at do-tank the Policy Centre for African Peoples, takes part in Chatham House advisory working groups, and supports the core team behind the crowdsourced COVID-19 resource coronavirustechhandbook.com. Nyasha studied MA Quantitative Politics, Social & Public Policy, Economics and Environmental Science alongside Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese with Software Engineering, then a Health Sciences MSc International Humanitarian Affairs with Human Rights Law plus sustainable development.

Earlier this summer, she received a STEM scholarship for the University of Cambridge. In addition to her native Shona as a Zimbabwean born Brit, she has learnt Zulu, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish too. Thanks to a love for the arts as well, she has collaborated with the National Gallery, House of Illustration, Lyrix Organix, Battersea Arts, ERIC Festival, Academy of Music & Sound, Television for the Environment, YOUYOU Mentoring, The Library and Keats House.

Her multifaceted advocacy, activism, and ambassadorship encompasses UNICEF, Theirworld (and its Global Business Coalition for Education), Youth Employment UK, Stemettes, Beyond Suffrage, and FORWARD - the Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development. She has also conducted research with ClearView Research, Bite the Ballot, and You Press - for the Mayor of London as well as UCL, Peking University in China, University of Gothenburg, and the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.

A keen social entrepreneur, her first venture won investment plus other prizes from Nominet Trust and the Royal Household via the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA) in 2015, and she was invited to participate in Founders Forum for Good. Nyasha's solo and joint endeavours were covered by The Guardian, The Independent, BBC, Daily Mirror, HuffPost, Dazed, London Live, Cyber Salon, Silicon Republic, Computer Business Review, The Irish Times, New Zimbabwe, The Herald, Ham&High, Women Shift Digital, and Brazil's Globo Media.

Following representing the UK at the 2019 G(irls)20 Summit in Japan and joining the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society delegation, she founded another social impact initiative: yourcareer.site . Its mission is to provide full suite professional development support with foresight for the 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions.

Previous efforts have reached thousands alongside leading to recognition through: multiple UN organs the World Bank, WWF, EU, ITC (WTO/UNCTAD), International Gender Champions, US State Department, Houses of Parliament, the Scottish Government, Unilever, Google, HP Enterprise, Accenture, Salesforce Foundation, Channel 4's 4Talent, The Economist, Foundervine, Freeformers, YMCA, Women in Science & Engineering, Women Who Code, Code First Girls, the Jo Cox Foundation, and Coalition for Racial Equality & Rights.