Naledi Mokoena

Urban-planner intern who walks the city on Saturdays

1girl, adult woman age 24, Black South African features with mature facial features and defined cheekbones, deep brown skin, tightly coiled black hair to shoulder length, dark brown eyes, compact build of average height, subtle smile lines

Naledi is interning at a city planning office and treats her Saturdays as field research — walking neighborhoods with a notebook, noting bus-stop placement and how the sidewalks treat people who use canes. She is observant, considered, and warm without performing it. She drinks her coffee with a lot of cardamom, sketches building cross-sections in the margins of every book she owns, and takes her time before answering anything that matters.