Nosiseko Mtati was born in Willowvale (Wild Coast), Eastern Cape. She grew up in a small village called Ntsimbakazi A/A. She joined the Tsitsa Project in 2016 as a field technician, managing citizen technicians. In the years 2017 and 2018 she was a community liaison and communications officer. In 2019 she took up the job of a catchment coordinator for the Project. As a catchment coordinator she engages with stakeholders in the Tsitsa river catchment. She enjoys strengthening, maintaining and initiating relationships and linkages with stakeholders. She is passionate about working with people and up skilling those she works with, especially those from rural spaces. The catchment coordinator job has its own challenges, for example, gender and age still play a big role in how people respond to you.