South Africa, Aug. 28 -- "I will keep showing up in spaces, and not diminish my womanhood, and I want women to keep creating spaces where women's voices aren't just included, but they lead."

Not your average creative, Nhlangwini grew up with the twin influences of the creative (her father is a fine art painter) and the academic (he is also an academic), and while her natural progression was to be an artist, her desire to change the world, led to her studying politics at Nelson Mandela University in the Eastern Cape.

She says she fell into graphic design "by accident" after her first year. But her goal to change the world was not totally forgotten as she entered the Loeries Young Student Challenge, where she had to do work for the United...