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Zandile Mqwathi
Zandile Mqwathi is a public health professional with twelve years of experience in designing, implementing and managing HIV, gender equality, community leadership and Social and Behavioral Change (SBC) program. She has participated in several advocacies and international youth conferences that were focused on escalating the achievement of the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’. Additionally, she is a member of the Presidential Youth Working Group in South Africa. Her professional interests have led her to collaborate with the New School of New York graduates on a project aimed at addressing burnout amongst care workers in South Africa. Zandi recently co-authored ‘Addressing mental health in South Africa using the djembe drum and storytelling to open up the dialogue of finding, owning and using your voice in the home as a Christian woman’ for ArtsPraxis, Volume 6 Issue 2. She holds a master’s degree in drama therapy and she is a Compassionate Inquiry practitioner in training. She currently works as the Alcohol Harms Reduction and Gender Based Violence project manager at DG Murray Trust. She is also part of the Atlantic Fellowship for Health Equity in South Africa at Tekano (AFHESA).