Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile
Director at Kat Kai Kol-Kes International
Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile is Botswana-born Transgender Activist, a TED fellow, Founder and Creative Director of the Queer Shorts Showcase Festival (Botswana), a graduate of the Young African Leadership Initiative and a member of the Mellon Mays Fellows Professional Network. Katlego has served as a curator of the Gaborone Hub of the World Economic Forum. She is a writer, artist, educator, performer, director, producer, public Intellectual, and a human rights activist.
Katlego has managed to create a world of influence which touches on corporate, creative, non-governmental/non-profit, and education industries. As a groundbreaking ARTivist, she uses various art forms for human rights activism and advocacy, bridging the gaps created by jargon and societal insecurities.
Katlego is a graduate of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, with an MA in Human Rights, Culture, and Social Justice, as well as of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, with an Honours degree in Dramatic Arts. She was a 2016/17 Chevening Scholar.
Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile 
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