During the gap year between 2007 and 2009, Mwanawasa attended Concord College to do her A-levels and, in the process, became the first African head girl at this school.

[citation needed] For her tertiary education, Mwanawasa attended the University of Kent, in the United Kingdom, between September 2009 and June 2013 where she studied for her LLB in English and French law.

From September 2020 to April 2021, she attended the Advanced Course in Natural Resource Governance and Development: Policies and Practice at ETH Zurich.

Just before the 2016 Zambian presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections, Mwanawasa, alongside directing her commercial farming and agribusiness ventures, dedicated a full year to work as a political strategist for the United Party for National Development candidate Hakainde Hichilema who later became the seventh president of the Republic of Zambia.

Mwanawasa has been involved in a number of businesses including Chibombo District based Cattle Wealth Management Firm.