parents are from Zimbabwe and grew up in British colonial Africa. She attended the Northwest Missouri State University (then Missouri Academy of Sciences) where she took part in the Model United Nations. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied political science and African studies. While at the University of Pittsburgh, Samudzi attended a rally in response to the unjust shooting of Trayvon Martin, where she called for police and government accountability. In 2013 Samudzi moved to London, where she completed a master's programme at the London School of Economics. She is a doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studies German colonialism, the Herero and Namaqua genocide and the role of science in indigenous and Black identity. She has studied the barriers that transgender people face accessing healthcare, contextualizing trans health within "larger systems of oppression". Selected publications References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Pittsburgh alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics 21st-century American women writers American people of Zimbabwean descent