I am a first-year graduate student in Anthropology at Rice University. I am interested to investigate the economic roles played by coastal women of the pre-colonial period. I am particularly interested to investigate the different economic activities conducted by Swahili women from the middle of the first millennium CE, and analyzing their relationship with the contemporary economic roles played by modern women, combining archaeological and ethnographic data.

I obtained my BA in tourism and cultural heritage in Tanzania. Before joining Rice, I worked as an assistant lecturer at the State University of Zanzibar and a research fellow at the Department of Museum and Antiquity. I have also worked on the project of Urban Ecology and Transitions in the Zanzibar Archipelago (UETZAP) which aimed to explore the early urbanism of Zanzibar islands.