From 2009 to 2012, she was based at the African Centre for Cities, at the University of Cape Town, where she worked on curricula reform and on building a network of planning schools across Anglophone Africa. This network, the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS), now has 54 members and has worked with UNHabitat and Cities Alliance in promoting more contextually relevant planning education. Nancy is the co-chair of the governing council of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), an international umbrella body of ten regional planning schools associations and incoming chair of the Association of African Planning Schools.