Lillian Artz
Lillian Artz is the Director of a multi-disciplinary research unit called the Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Prior to this appointment, she spent 8 years as a chief researcher and lecturer at UCT's Institute of Criminology where she specialised in feminist criminology and feminist jurisprudence, domestic violence, sexual offences and feminist research methods and ethics. She has published widely on domestic violence and sexual offences and has worked intensively on criminal justice reform in South Africa and other African regions in relation to these topics over the past decade. She is currently co-authoring a book on sexual offences law reform in South Africa and as a British Council Chevening Fellow and Wingate Scholar, is completing her doctoral work at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she is also a visiting scholar.

Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo holds PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Hull University. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Makerere University. She is a senior feminist anthropologist and an experienced trainer/lecturer, researcher and advocate for gender equality and social transformation. Her personal commitment to equality is exemplified in the various committees and boards she serves on voluntarily.

Deevia Bhana
Deevia Bhana is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds a PhD in Education in which she explored the constructions of gender and childhood sexuality. Her teaching and research areas include gender and early childhood sexualities, the construction of masculinities, violence and youth identities and HIV/AIDS education.

Sarai Chisala
Sarai Chisala is a researcher with the Gender, Health and Justice Unit and the Law, Race and Gender Unit of the University of Cape Town. She holds law degrees from the University of Malawi and the University of Pretoria, where she obtained an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. Sarai has worked as a practitioner in private practice and as a legal officer at the Malawi Human Rights Commission. Her current area of focus is HIV/Aids and the law.

Pumla Dineo Gqola
Pumla Dineo Gqola is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She received her honours from the University of Cape Town, and Master's degrees from both Warwick University and Munich University. Pumla maintains an active research and activist interest in African feminisms, postcoloniality, sexuality, and the gendering of colonial slavery and its memory. She was awarded the Ruth First Fellowship for Writers in 2006.

Shamim Meer
Shamim Meer is a longtime feminist activist. She was a co-founder of both SPEAK Magazine and Agenda, and has worked with women's organisations in communities and in trade unions. She is currently a freelance writer and educator. 

Relebohile Moletsane
Relebohile Moletsane is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and holds a PhD from the Indiana University in Bloomington America. Her teaching and areas of research interests include curriculum studies; professional and organisational development; human rights education; and youth, gender, gender-based violence; health and HIV/AIDS education.

Asha Moodley
Asha Moodley is employed as the administrator for the Durban branch of the Legal Resources Centre and holds a BA from the University College for Indians. She has had a long involvement with the feminist and gender movement as an activist and is a long-standing member of the Black Consciousness movement. Asha is also a board member of the Umtapo Centre as well as the Pitseng Women's Fund.

Pontso Moorosi
Pontso Moorosi is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Pietermaritzburg campus. She started her career as a high school teacher and later focused on gender issues in education. She holds a PhD on gender in education management and continues to research gender issues in education. Her other research and teaching interests include policy analysis and education leadership and management.

Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers is presently a senior consultant with Fundani Consultants and has taught at the University of Toledo, USA, the Durban Institute of Technology and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Shirley holds a PhD in theory and social foundations from the University of Toledo. Her research is largely on social justice education and anti-oppressive practices; her current research is on gendered mourning practices in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Rosemary Okello-Orlale
Rosemary Okello-Orlale (Kenya) is the Executive Director African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWC), a media NGO focusing on development communication in Africa. She is also a trustee of the Media Council of Kenya, Secretary to the Kenya Editor’s Guild and a Treasurer for the African Editor’s Forum. She holds post-graduate diploma in research methodology, Population Studies and Research Institute at Nairobi University and also post graduate diploma in Journalism from London School of Journalism. She is also the first prize award winner as the best female reporter on ICT of the 2004 African Information Society Initiative media awards.

Venitha Pillay
Venitha Pillay is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She has a PhD from the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on feminist research methodologies and forging feminist ways of thinking. She has two daughters, Kiara and Tahlia.

Kubi Rama
Kubi Rama currently works as the Chief Executive Officer for Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA). She has previously worked as the Deputy Director and Network Manager of Gender Links and served at the Department of Journalism (Durban Institute of Technology) as a senior lecturer. Kubi's is currently completing her masters in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and holds an honours degree in Cultural and Media Studies and a bachelor’s degree in law, both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Elaine Salo
Elaine Salo is a senior lecturer in the African Gender Institute and holds a Phd from Emory University in Atlanta, USA. Her research, writing and publication work focuses on youth, gender, popular culture and globalisation; gender, sexuality and citizenship, as well as the cultural meanings of physical space. 

Vicci Tallis
Vicci Tallis is currently employed by the Durban-based Gender AIDS Forum and is planning on finishing her PhD thesis on gendered vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS by the end of 2006. She has been working in the field of HIV and AIDS in South Africa for the past 20 years - at a local, national and international level for both national and international NGOs as well as with local and national government.

Charne (Bobby) van der Merwe
Charne (Bobby) van der Merwe is a Durban-based freelance editor/proofreader and journalist. She has an Honours degree in Journalism from Rhodes University. She has worked as a features writer and a sub-editor for weekly and monthly magazines. She has written various articles and opinion pieces and has had work published in various newspapers and magazines. Her fields of interest include health, gender, theatre, environmental issues, poetry and fiction writing and cyberactivism.

Everjoice Win
Everjoice Win graduated with Honours in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe. She was worked with with the Women’s Action Group, as Editor of their popular education publication, SPEAK OUT/TAURAI/KHULUMANI and was a Programme Officer with Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). She has also served as a Commonwealth Advisor to the Commission on Gender Equality of South Africa. She is currently, the International Head of Women’s Rights with Action-Aid International.