MODEL & INFLUENCER

Noëlla has received several awards from various international media and organisations, including the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s 100 years award, BBC’s 100 Influential and Inspirational Women, 100 Most Influential Africans from New African magazine, Muhammad Ali Center’s Daughter of Greatness honor, 100 Innovators Shaping the Continent from TRUE Africa, International Humanitarian of the Year from the Women4africa Awards, and Voss Foundation’s Women Helping Women Award, to name a few.

Noëlla has spoken at many high-level forums and events, including the World Economic Forum in Davos in both 2018 and 2020, the 2019 Forbes Leading Women Summit in Durban, the World Literacy Summit in Oxford, the 2021 Dignified Storytelling Forum in Dubai, the 2021 Global Citizen Forum, the Chopard x BOF Panel, alongside Julianne Moore and Colin Firth, the German AIDS Gala, alongside Princess Mabel van Oranje, the Global Citizen Forum, and The Global Fund’s HIV Epidemic Response campaign launch, alongside the First Lady of Namibia and the Princess of Swaziland. 

Noëlla is passionate about speaking at small-scale community-driven events too such as Women in Dev (2020), the WIL Forum in Dubai, TEDx in Paris organized by Societe Generale, an Oxford University lecture to the International Relations Society, UNICEF panel on Girl Power and Potential, and at the Kinshasa Parliament.

Noëlla represents Black Opal, Creme De La Mer, and Max Factor. She has worked with brands such as TAG Heuer and was an ambassador for Africa Fashion Week in London in 2015 and 2014. In March 2021, Noëlla featured in the Mother’s Day campaign for The White Company.

Noëlla collaborated with Roksanda Illici and the Outnet in 2019 to create a unique collection and 10% of the sales went to Malaika. As part of her mission to see increased sustainability in fashion, Noëlla collaborated with rental company HURR in 2020. The campaign involved influencers donating outfits to the platform, and 100% of the rental price went to Malaika. 

In 2022, Noella collaborated on an edit with The Fold and worked on a Modern Working Wardrobe campaign with Paul Smith, both raising awareness about Malaika’s work.

Other recent collaborations include a partnership with British designer Georgia Hardinge, where a percentage of the sales of her Mila dress were donated to Malaika, as well as a campaign with MTArt Agency and MyTheresa, who made a donation to Malaika for International Women’s Day 2021.

Noëlla has featured on several news and television shows and has hosted a number of events, including: Forbes 8 Original Series, CNN: African Voices, International Business Times UK, One World with Deepak Chopra and TV5 Monde.

Noëlla presented the Barclays Women of the Year Award in 2019 and was co-host of the 2012 Miss Vodacom competition television show, where she also mentored the contestants. Noëlla hosted the Cinema for Peace events in NY and in LA, where philanthropists Sting and Trudie Styler and Ben Affleck were honored for their work.