Tendai Banda

Tendai Banda has over 5 years of experience in research, youth engagement, mentorship, and project management. Currently, Tendai is the Outreach Transition Program Coordinator for Baylor Children’s Foundation, where she supports adolescents living with HIV properly transition to adulthood. Tendai holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Malawi. Tendai is driven by her passion for work that improves the lives of others, especially young people, and inspires change and service leadership. To this end, she has volunteered at World University Service of Canada-Malawi on various capacity building mandates, most recently at the National Youth Council of Malawi as a Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Advisor. Tendai is also an active member of a youth network called Youth to Youth Empowerment, which provides mentorship and career guidance to young people in secondary schools. Additonally, she mentors youth in her community who approached her for professional guidance and those under Maphunziro265 scholarships. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Tendai plans to share the leadership and networking skills gained to the young people she works with or mentors and also to use her established networks to strengthen her mentorship cause with a focus on young girls.