Kasapo Manda is a professional accountant and banker. She has a deep passion for community development and engages with various stakeholders with a vision to contribute to ending intergenerational poverty and fighting social ills by helping them understand community needs and challenges and connecting them to projects that advance quality education and youth development with a specific focus on sustainable development. She is an Alumni of the YALI Regional Leadership Centre – Southern Africa. She is an advocate for SDGs and a Partner and team leader in the African Youth SGDs Summit based in Ghana. Kasapo is also Interim Co-Chair of the 2030 Youth Alliance

An Auditor turned broadcaster, Kamota's knowledge of business and finance landed her a 4-hour morning show on Money FM, Zambia's first and only business talk radio station. She is an entrepreneur and an alumna of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme. She co-founded Sole Source Limited, a start-up whose digital magazine and strategic online campaigns support the local restaurant industry growth Kamota has worked in online communications and social media management. Her writing credits include magazines, blogs and more recently, TuneMe, a UNFPA supported youth sex education web platform. An avid reader with a firm belief in the transformative change books have in the lives and minds of children, she volunteered time at a community library where she held reading clinics.