 She founded the uBuntu project in 2003, and continues to be the co-director of that project with Chuma Himonga.She is also a co-director of the uBuntu Township Project, with Madoda Sigonyela.Professor Cornell is an advocate and researcher for Khulamani, an on the ground organisation of people who suffered under apartheid and are now struggling to find new and creative ways to counter the devastation that remains because of the system of racialized capitalism.