Nafhesa is an interdisciplinary Sociologist with expertise in the everyday lives of racialized and minority communities. She is an advocate for inclusive approaches which include intersectional feminist perspectives with expertise in ageing, migration, sexualities and environmental sustainability. Nafhesa is co-founder and lead of the Power and Intersecting Inequalities (PII) research cluster at Northumbria University which aims to draw attention to social inequalities and building equity.