Mandi Vundla is a Soweto/KZN poet, educator, slam coach, co-editor of Home Is Where The Mic Is and founder of the Poetry Zone ZA, a poetry development agency focused on creating new sustainability models to improve the quality of spoken word culture and increase its accessibility, consumption and viability. She mentors young emerging poets through the Brave Spoken Youth project and is a poet coach for the Poetry Africa Slam finals. Vundla is a HUB@GOETHE alumni and was listed as an MG200 young leader in 2022. Her spoken word poetry album, A Love Song For Miriam Makeba, inspired by Mirima Makeba, was recently released.