Mosa Phadi completed her PhD at the University of Johannesburg. She has recently been accepted into the American Council for Learned Society’s African Humanities Programme and received a postdoctoral fellowship. Her work at PARI has focused on the Northern Frontiers project, and she co-authored two groundbreaking reports on the local municipalities of Mogalakwena and Lephalale. She has worked as a researcher for over six years, published several peer-reviewed works and produced a research documentary film focusing on the middle class in Soweto. She also worked at the Council on Higher Education as a manager.