I've just finished my Master's Degree in creative writing at UCT and I've got experience in teaching and education more generally, in addition to editing and digital content creation. 2012 - Co-wrote Kopano Residence's play submission for the University of Cape Town's 2012 "Res4Res" inter-residence theatre festival. The play focused on contemporary South African problems of HIV/AIDS and persistent and insidious racism. 2015 - Wrote a review of Quentin Tarantino's film The Hateful Eight published on South African lifestyle blog http://www.******.***.za 2016 - published an artist profile - entitled, "Ex Machina"- on Ralph Borland, the artist responsible for the African Robots project where Borland worked with informal wire-workers to create and animate robotic wirework birds using cheap and easily available electronics. The piece was published in The Lake magazine in the form of a creative non-fiction essay based on interviews I conducted with the artist at his studio in Cape Town. The article can be found here. 2017 - Worked as a senior editor and writer for the travel website Word Travels which involved fact checking and creative, atmospheric descriptions of the landscape, culture, and life in numerous countries around the world. 2018-2020 - I've been working on my MA thesis, a novel set in a fictional version of the Eastern Cape. The plot is governed by South African storytelling, history, and art. I also have compiled extensive field toolkits for an Eastern Cape-based NGO, The Small Projects Foundation. The one toolkit being for the roll out of community projects for Orphans and Vulnerable Children; and the other, being for the roll out of community projects aimed to identify High Transmission Areas of HIV/Aids and put together action plans and interventions that educate the community and enable the supply of rescources that can reduce the spread of the virus. I collated, added, and streamlined methodologies relating to each of these issues in a practical, actionable guide to enable fieldworkers and community healthcare workers to support these communities effectively. In addition to that I taught first year English Language and Literature at UCT for two years, crucially in a 'plus-tut' capacity that formed part of UCT's extended degree programme. The 'plus-tuts' are designed to increase contact time and academic support for students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. I have also taught English as a second language in Vietnam. Perhaps, in summary, it might be said that I am invested and have a track record of experience and deep involvement in social justice and the improvement of South African lives and futures through language and art.