Vanessa Nsona

She has co-hosted workshops in Malawi. In Zimbabwe, she held a workshop on 'Building a Sustainable Fashion Brand' together with Zedlabel at the US embassy.

• Birth Name — Vanessa Nsona • Birthplace — Malawi • Occupation — Fashion Designer

She holds a diploma in Business Management from University of Malawi. In 2014 Nsona was a Mandela Washington Fellow, for young African leaders, at Dartmouth College studying business. She represented Malawi at the African Youth World Heritage forum in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a member of Soroptmist International of Blantyre (SIB) which helps disadvantaged women and children. She also launched Project Luso, which creates and promotes Malawian fashion designs to help disadvantaged women and mentors talent in the fashion industry together with non-profit Samaritan Trust.

Nsona launched the Dorovee fashion accessory brand in 2012 which includes sandals, necklaces and other jewellery using Malawian fabric and materials. Her designs have appeared in Malawi fashion shows, including Malawi Fashion Week 2014 and at the Malawi at 50 celebrations in Washington DC. More recently, Nsona collaborated with Matamba Film Labs for Women in Zimbabwe to develop a stop motion film about the life of a young African girl.

• Interviewee, "Executing a Business Idea", Player FM, Premier Multimedia Consultants, episode 003 & 004, 2016 • Judge, Zedlabel Fashion Challenge, fashion feature TV show, Zimbabwe, 2015 • Interviewee, "Interview with Vanessa Nsona", United Nations Foundation, 2014