Jessie's Introduction

In both graduate school and her professional role, I live, reads, and writes for social change.  I dig learning about social justice and social movement history and the many brave people that have stirred up change.  While in South Africa I am most excited to meet local activists and hear about the anti-apartheid struggle from their perspectives, both in the past and as the country heals today.  I am also hoping to gain a deeper understanding of the physical and spatial segregation of apartheid by experiencing the city of Cape Town and the surrounding townships.