[6] She investigated the reasons that coronavirus disease disproportionately impacted the Black community, and reported on the legacy of apartheid as seen in the current COVID response from Namibia.

In 2018, Samudzi curated an art show at the Ashara Ekundayo gallery in Oakland, California,[11] which is dedicated to Black women artists.

While at the University of Pittsburgh, Samudzi attended a rally in response to the unjust shooting of Trayvon Martin, where she called for police and government accountability.

As a doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, she studied German colonialism, the Herero and Namaqua genocide and the role of science in indigenous and Black identity.

[20] She has studied the barriers that transgender people face accessing healthcare, contextualizing trans health within "larger systems of oppression".