Netsai Gwata is pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, while working as an educational psychologist at Brighter Futures for Children in the United Kingdom. She is investigating the resilience-enabling factors that protect young adults from resource-constrained or stressed communities from depression.
Netsai herself comes from a resource-constrained community in Zimbabwe. However, thanks to her own perseverance and support from family and community members, she was able to do well in life. As an educational psychologist, she wants to champion the resilience of young people in similarly disadvantaged communities.
Her professional goal is to help open learning centers for children with learning disabilities that are accessible to families from resource-constrained communities. In Zimbabwe, most children and young people with learning disabilities from such communities have limited access to education that is suited to their needs.
