Before joining the UJ, she was a Senior Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development Research Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Prior to that she spent 7 years at the University of Witwatersrand where she was a senior lecturer in media and communication studies. She holds a PhD and MA in media studies from the University Of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include media, democracy and citizenship, new and alternative media, policy studies, social movements, African political thought, decolonial and postcolonial theories.