EXPERT SOURCES MEDIA ALERT: QUOTE THIS WOMAN+
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COVID-19 VACCINE
Dr Carmen Briner (Johannesburg)
As a medical doctor, Dr Briner works in clinical research for COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Africa and is an active educator regarding vaccines and COVID-19. She is experienced in emergency medicine and clinical research with a special interest in public, maternal and childrens' health.
COVID-19: vaccine trials, vaccine distribution, AstraZeneca side-effects, Sisonke study (the clinical trial vaccinating healthcare providers at the moment).
Media tags: child and maternal health and safety, women's health issues
Contact details: carmen@momdoc.co.za
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
Devon Krantz (Johannesburg/Cape Town) new on the database
Krantz is the CEO and co-founder of Linum Labs, a blockchain software development studio whose aim is to build real-world products for people using web3 technology, and to accelerate positive change through decentralized technologies.
COVID-19: remote working, decentralized teams
Media tags: blockchain, ethereum, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (a kind of cryptographic token), emerging tech, female leadership
Contact details: devon@linumlabs.com
Lwazi Wali (Johannesburg) new on the database
Wali is a serial tech entrepreneur whose background includes working at a top US aerospace/future-tech manufacturer. She has more than a decade’s experience in finance, strategy, venture capital, startups and Pan-African technology. In 2018, she founded HerHQ - Africa’s first digital, social, capital market, with the aim of democratising access to knowledge, capital and markets for Pan-African women founders of colour.
Media tags: startups, African tech (fintech, health tech, e-commerce), women’s entrepreneurship, impact investing, innovative finance, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, US global industries (aerospace, energy)
Contact details: lwazi.wali@gmail.com
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GOOD GOVERNANCE
Zukiswa Kota (Eastern Cape) new on the database
Kota is a programme manager and research analyst working at the public service accountability monitor to promote social accountability and good governance in South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi. She is a trustee at the equal education law centre, advises the civic tech innovation network, and is part of Imali Yethu coalition for open budgets.
COVID-19: governance and accountability through the pandemic
Media tags: governance, public service, fiscal transparency, procurement, social accountability, open government, public budgets, transparency, budget justice, social justice, ecoliteracy, exercise, unequal access to safe spaces and exercise facilities for women and girls
Contact details: z.kota@ru.ac.za / zukiswa.kota@gmail.com
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ONLINE TEACHING
Dr Thelma de Jager (Pretoria) new on the database
Dr de Jager is a lecturer whose primary focus is on training student teachers. She is interested in differentiated instruction (providing multiple different ways for students to gain understanding), inclusive education, and technology-assisted teaching and learning. Dr de Jager is the HOD and a senior lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology’s department of educational foundation.
COVID-19: online teaching, creating differentiated instruction activities online
Media tags: differentiated instruction (providing multiple different ways for students to gain understanding), learning preference styles, inclusive education, technology assisted teaching
Contact details: dejagert@tut.ac.za
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FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Nokwanda Maseko (Johannesburg) new on the database
Maseko is an economist working at Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies. She has interest in climate change, feminist economics, understanding women's location within and outside the economy, and how that may affect a just transition to a more sustainable economy.
Media tags: industrial policy, feminist economics, trade, just transition towards sustainability, climate change
Contact details: nokwanda@tips.org.za / nokwanda.maseko18@gmail.com
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CORPORATE SOCIAL IMPACT
Tiekie Barnard (Johannesburg) new on the database
Barnard lobbies the private sector to consider social and environmental wellbeing as well as profit. To this end, she has founded two organisations which help businesses achieve these goals. De Jager also hosts discussions about the role the private sector can play in achieving gender equality.
Media tags: corporate social impact, a shared value approach to business (which connects success to social progress), gender parity in the workplace, gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF)
Contact details: tiekie@shiftimpact.africa
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ANTI-RACISM WEEK
Keolebogile Mbebe (Johannesburg)
Mbebe is a researcher working primarily as an ethicist in the subject of race. She is a lecturer in philosophy and a PhD candidate in jurisprudence (in which she is investigating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) at the University of Pretoria.
Media tags: ethics, race, feminism, philosophy, religion, sociology, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
Contact details: keo.mbebe@up.ac.za
Dr Caryn Abrahams (Johannesburg)
Abrahams is a researcher in non-racialism, social cohesion and urban politics; and urban economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on agri-food systems, forms of governance, informality and city-focussed economic development. She is a senior lecturer at Wits School of Governance, a member of the Anti-Racism Network South Africa, and the editor of and contributor to the Gauteng City-Region Observator’s Pathways to Anti-Racism (2016).
Media tags: race, racism, social cohesion, social change, urban planning, agribusiness, governance, local government politics, supermarkets, agri-food investment, agricultural unions, informal markets, small-scale farmers
Contact details: caryn.abrahams@wits.ac.za
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STUFF FROM US
As we anticipate the possibility of the third wave of Covid-19, know that QW+ is working hard to ensure that we have experts who can talk on all aspects of the pandemic. Let us know if we can put you in touch with members of our ever-growing database!
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CONTACTS
If you need an expert’s cell number, or would like access to the rest of the QW+ database contact
- Kathy 0846888980 / kathy@quotethiswoman.org.za / WhatsApp
- Jordan 0812436653 / jordan@quotethiswoman.org.za / WhatsApp
Until next time,
Kathy and the QW+ team
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