Prof Moja is an Emerita Professor of Higher Education at New York University, an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria. She obtained her Master’s degree in Education and Doctorate in Educational and Instructional Technology. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria. She joined the National Education Policy Initiative (NEPI), a project of the Mass Democratic Movement, as a member of both its management and research team. Her research focus has been on higher education policy. She served as a Special Advisor to two Ministers of Education and was appointed Executive Director and Commissioner of the National Commission on Higher Education. In 2019 she received the NRF Lifetime Achiever Award at the annual NRF Awards.