ResponseABLE with Professor Nikki James
Jun 17, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
Marisa Moloto's path led her path from speech therapy, to public health , to consulting to social entrepreneurship, and to eventually founding Lefika Foundation in 2018, a social innovation…
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I had a conversation with my husband and he was my boyfriend at the time and he was like, if you could do anything, what would you do? I was like, I would do my work for free and somebody must just pay me to live.
Hi everybody, welcome back to the Response Able podcast and my second podcast here from Cape Town, South Africa.
Marisa is not only one of my favorite people, she is also one of my closest friends.
We spend a lot of time throughout the year together on Zoom and planning the program we do together the research work we do together and sometimes just for a zoom wine to catch up on life so i'm so excited to invite you into this conversation and to hear her story her wisdom and her inspiration let's jump in Anyway, welcome, Marissa Maloto, one of my favorite humans.
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