Her articles are regularly featured in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and Foreign Policy magazine. She provides regular expert commentary on African political affairs for major international media outlets (including the BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, USA Today, CTV, CCTV, Bloomberg, the London Financial Times, Newsweek, The Economist and others). She has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), Harvard University, the Brookings Institute, Carnegie Endowment, the National Defense University, Chatham House (London), the US Africa Command (Commander’s Speaker Series), the World Bank, and the World Affairs Council. She holds a master of public policy, with honors, from the University of California at Los Angeles. She was born in Mbabane, Swaziland.