[2][3] Her family moved to Yangon in 1993 because of her father's political activism; Kyaw Min continually fought for labor rights and was harassed by the junta.

Her father had been voted in as a member of Parliament as part of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 1990 general election, but the military junta refused to recognize the election as he was the member of an opposition party.

[3][4][5][6][7] According to the New York Times, "At least 400 members of the [National] League [for Democracy] were arrest[ed] in 1990" directly after winning the election.

[8] It is unclear why U Kyaw Min, Wai Wai Nu's father, was not arrested in 1990 along with the four hundred or so members of the National League for Democracy and the many other democracy activists who were arrested in the aftermath of the 1990 general election.

"[6] The whole family was freed in January 2012, at the age of 25 after president Thein Sein declared amnesty.

Through Women's Peace Network, she focuses on peace-building in Myanmar for all people of any gender, ethnicity and religion.

[4][6][15] Also in 2015, she participated in the inaugural class of a training program for young leaders held at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

The program, called the Liberty and Leadership Forum, was focused on democratic transition training.

[18] The following year, she was selected as a Genocide Prevention Fellow by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.