• Architect, urbanist, and development facilitator based in Cape Town with 45+ years’ experience.
• Grounded in political and community activism across urban and rural South Africa since the 1970s.
• Worked with NGOs, government, and in independent practice on housing, rural development, and women’s rights.
• Specialist in community-led planning, informal settlement upgrading, and social housing.
• Skilled in participatory design, facilitation, and education-with-production approaches.
• Longstanding women’s activist – focused on mobilising, organising, and building leadership capacity.
• Popular educator working to build critical consciousness and integrated development processes.
• Mentor to young leaders in the housing and development sectors.
• Creative projects include mural-making, banner design, sewing co-operatives, and training materials.
• Currently facilitating Encounters of the Heart – Walking and Talking Cafés. Walking Cafes are urban transect activities that explore people, place and power through the persistent colonial settlement form and make visible the hidden stories embedded in our city, and the relationship between and the impact of the urban fabric on our sense of belonging. Talking Cafes are focus based discussion circles addressing the burning questions of race, class and gender power relations for social justice and to heal as a nation from intergenerational trauma.