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IWANI MAWOCHA, 23
Singapore-based Zimbabwean, UI/ UX designer/actress/model/writer/ entrepreneur/Youtuber/polyglot.
It’s been a busy year for the Yale-NUS graduate: In 2018, she helped produce Singapore’s first all-black play, Pioneer Passages:TheStoriesofBlackWomen; co-founded people analytics start-up Panalyt; took part in TheNewPaper New Face contest; joined Now Model Management; took up taekwondo; and taught herself to reupholster a couch. Already fluent in English and French, she is learning four more languages – Shona,
Czech, Korean and Italian – while writing two short stories in her free time. To end the year, she will go to Munich as one of the finalists for the Digital Female Leader Award, chosen by Global Digital Women for her contribution to digital works.
But her long-term goal is to act (she studied at Acting International in Paris and the Haque Centre of Acting and Creativity in Singapore). “Next year, I hope to enrol in either the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art or LAMDA in London.”
Knit wrap dress, $2,440, knit cardigan, $1,690, and calfskin necklace with crystals, $1,610, Balenciaga.
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