PEOPLE

Charles Kibwe Maeda.  For the past 15 years, Charles has worked on various initiatives to incorporate traditional notions of peace and social justice into the truth and reconciliation process following the Rwandan Genocide.  He began this work with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, and has subsequently moved on to working with community-based non-governmental organizations and church groups.  He is also working with educational institutions to fight historical revisionism and denial of the genocide.  Charles has an MSc in Politics and International Relations from Oxford University, and is currently working towards his Ph.D. at the University of Dar es Salaam.  He lives on the island of Unguja in the Zanzibar Archipelago, where he raises his six children, writes traditional Swahili poetry, and wanders the narrow alleys and bustling bazaars of Stone Town

Chris Lockhart.  Chris has worked throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Western Australia, and North America on a wide variety of community based projects in education, health care, cultural heritage, and environmental conservation.  Along the way, he has worked with many people and groups, ranging from street children in Tanzania and Traditional Authorities in Namibia to remote communities of Australia and First Nations Governments in Canada.  He has a Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco.  Chris grew up in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and continues to climb its mountains, sail its waters, and follow its salmon.

Tutupa Kasaona.  Tutupa is the administrator and expeditor for SEI.  She was born and raised in the Sesfontein area of Northwestern Namibia, and has been affiliated with various non-governmental agencies over the years.  She is actively involved in Namibia’s communal conservancy movement and worked for years as a primary school teacher.  She is a proud Himba woman and mother of two sons.

Jane Wardlaw.  As a woman living with disability in Australia, Jane has been lobbying for the rights and self-determination of the disabled for most of her adult life.  She is involved with the development of several political strategies and tools for disabled families and individuals to self-determine their own lives.  She is Chair of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Taskforce in her native Tasmania, a political campaign that works towards the establishment of a comprehensive national disability insurance scheme.  Jane has a post-graduate degree in regional development from the University of Western Australia, and is studying for a second degree in disability studies at Griffith University.  She has worked across Australia’s outback in various positions, ranging from a home teacher on remote cattle stations to working on various regional development strategies.  Along the way, she has driven her powered wheelchair across the harshest desert settings (accustomed to getting a flat tire or two!).

Linda Pitcher.  Linda has worked with refugees and immigrant groups in the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe on issues of cultural memory, self-determination, and citizenship.  With communities ranging from Palestinian youth to Algerian war veterans, mental health patients to second-generation Maghrebi activists in France, she explores experiences of trauma, transformation and healing in the wake of war, political conflict and social unrest.  Linda holds a Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, and currently resides in the Pacific Northwest.