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Rikky Minyuku is an independent human rights, development and facilitation consultant. Specialising in participatory multi-stakeholder processes gives her the opportunity to promote her passion for equality and human rights. She uses feminist approaches to accelerate systemic change in gender equality, DEIB and gender-based violence prevention. Pronouns? She/Her Born? Johannesburg South Africa Status? Single mother of … Read more
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Verashni Pillay is the founder of explain.co.za, a platform offering accessible and empowering news to those who don’t usually follow current affairs. She is a CNN African Journalism Award winner, an Open Society Foundations and Mandela Washington Fellow, and was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women. She was editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian … Read more
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Leonie Joubert is a science expert, writer and author whose work focuses on climate and environmental breakdown, energy policy and the ways modern cities and food systems leave people hungry, unhealthy and excluded. Over the past two decades she has developed a wealth of expertise on these issues, sharing her research in books, long form … Read more
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Dr Shakira Choonara is a multi-award-winning independent public health practitioner. She is widely recognised for championing universal health coverage, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and youth development. She serves is a member of the International Congress Council for the upcoming 18th World Congress on Public Health to be … Read more
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Zukiswa White is a queer-feminist and pan-African activist-organiser, popular educator, and projects specialist. Her work is at the intersections of gender equity, racial justice, and sustainable development. Her specific skills lie in building systems and amplifying women’s leadership. Rooted in the belief that culture is another terrain of struggle, she founded Umanyano Lwe Jazz, a … Read more
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Artist, academic and activist Dr Farieda Nazier uses memory work to look at how present-day experiences are influenced by colonial and apartheid history. Her sculptural and video installations intend to provoke discussion and engagement. (Memory work is a process of engaging with the past through ethical and historical lenses.) Born: 10 January 1980 in Mitchell’s … Read more
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Blurb: Author and healthcare executive Dr. Augusta Dorning brings four decades of experience across South Africa’s public, non-profit, and private healthcare sectors. Dorning has published The Power of Visualisation, co-authored with Dr. Shirley Zinn, a book that blends neuroscience, practical tools, and authentic African storytelling to equip readers to “create a life of purpose, possibility, … Read more
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Blurb Tarryn Tomlinson is a disability activist who has embraced the opportunities AI offers to make real changes in accessibility and understanding of disability issues. As a tech innovator, she has created the world’s first AI accessibility assistant. She is also a television presenter, media producer, and media personality. Pronouns: She/Her Born: 11 October 1998 … Read more
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Zuha Ajlan is a South African neuroscientist and an advocate for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine. She is the founder of Shadow A Scientist, a non-profit company dedicated to making careers in STEM more accessible to young scientists in Africa. Since 2022, Shadow A Scientist has reached over 3,000 students across South … Read more
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Asanda Ngoasheng is the new chair of the Board of Directors for Quote This Woman+. She is also Expert 1: the first expert that QW+ signed up to its database back in 2019 when we started as a brand-new feminist media non-profit. Ngoasheng is a socio-political analyst with a focus on policy analysis, political events, … Read more