 at Cambridge University, Nefesh-Clarke joined Human Rights Watch in New York.She worked for several years in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire for UNICEF and later for 6 years with Paris-based humanitarian organization, Children of Asia, which operates educational sponsorship programs in Southeast Asia.In 2008, Nefesh-Clarke trained with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, obtaining a qualification to implement microcredit programs for the alleviation of poverty.