Nomonde completed her legal articles at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc, then spent a year at the Constitutional Court as a law clerk to then Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. Subsequently, she worked as a Research and Teaching Associate at the Law School of the University of the Witwatersrand. She was then awarded the UCLA Law Sonke Health and Human Rights Fellowship through which she completed a LLM specialising in Public Interest Law and Policy with a focus on Gender, Health and Human Rights at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Prior to joining CALS Nomonde was a Policy Advocacy and Development Associate at Sonke Gender Justice.