Carmen Dhondt holds a MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (KU Leuven 2013). She worked as the assistent coördinator of the project Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU) (2018 - 2023). Since 2022 she is a teaching assistent in the Bachelor Afrikaanse Talen en Culturen and the Master African Studies. And since 2023 she is also a teaching assistent in the Interdisciplinary Master Gender en Diversity.