Tryphine Tshuma is a holder of a Bachelor of Social Science Honors Degree in Development Studies with Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. She is currently an intern at AFRODAD under the International Public Finance Portfolio (IPF) at AFRODAD. She is mostly committed to research work and advocacy to champion AFRODAD’s to support Africa’s inclusive economic growth and sustainable development through influencing policy change and debt management and development finance. Tryphine has been exposed to the practical realities of development work through working as volunteer-graduate at Mangwe Rural Disctrict Council. She has also worked a Nutrition Coordinator at the Ministry of Health & Child Care in Collaboration with UNICEF. She is passionate about development work especially issues that bring about economic, political and social transformation.