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IWANI MAWOCHA, 23 Singapore-based Zimbabwean, UI/ UX designer/actress/model/writer/ entrepreneur/Youtuber/polyglot.

- Rachel Tan

It’s been a busy year for the Yale-NUS graduate: In 2018, she helped produce Singapore’s first all-black play, Pioneer Passages: The Stories of Black Women; co-founded people analytics start-up Panalyt; took part in The New Paper New Face contest; joined Now Model Management; took up taekwondo; and taught herself to reupholster a couch. Already fluent in English and French, she is learning four more languages – Shona,

Knit wrap dress, $2,440, knit cardigan, $1,690, and calfskin necklace with crystals, $1,610, Balenciaga.

Czech, Korean and Italian – while writing two short stories in her free time. To end the year, she will go to Munich as one of the finalists for the Digital Female Leader Award, chosen by Global Digital Women for her contribution to digital works.

But her long-term goal is to act (she studied at Acting International in Paris and the Haque Centre of Acting and Creativity in Singapore). “Next year, I hope to enrol in either the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art or LAMDA in London.”

TJIN LEE, 45

Founder and managing director of Mercury Marketing & Communications; and co-founder of Life Beyond Grades, a social movement that was launched in September 2018.

“A mindset shift doesn’t happen overnight. We are now executing the second part of the campaign, which is about the future of hiring and skills of the future, because after all, the purpose of school is to prepare us for our careers. We will have a series of four talks where employers such as DBS and hedge fund companies share how they use video games or personality tests to recruit people. The first one kicked off on Nov 10; the rest are planned for the first quarter of 2019.

“We want parents to understand that employers are shifting the way they hire. We want to show parents the jobs they don’t even know exist. It may then relax them in the way they view grades.