Lorha Nakambe Consulting

Lorha Nakambe Consulting is a feminist consulting practice established to support the realisation of a just feminist funding ecosystem that is movement-led, abundantly resourced, and organising differently to build more just worlds. Informed by African Feminist praxis, Lorha Nakambe seeks to deepen efforts to transform injustice, violence, and inequality through systems change in philanthropy, transformative knowledge production, facilitation, feminist movement-building, sectoral learning and organisational development. Founder and Executive Dreamer, Iris Nxumalo-De Smidt, currently located in South Africa, is a feminist system innovator, who has spent a decade supporting strategic grant-making and systems change initiatives through feminist movement-building, Pan-African youth advocacy, lecturing, and conducting research. Iris is currently reading for a PhD at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, focusing on feminist organising for systems change in philanthropy. She holds an MSc in African Studies from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Peace and Security from the African Leadership Centre in King’s College London. Her formative higher education experiences include a Bachelor of Political Sciences in International Studies from the University of Pretoria and a BA Honours degree in International Relations as a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar. Our Services: Philanthropic Systems Change Research Facilitation and Learning Feminist Movement-Building Lorha Nakambe is committed to co-creating social infrastructures of healing justice, connection, care, and abundant resourcing for intersectional feminist movements. Let’s Transform the Funding Ecosystem Together.