Koketso Moeti
“I believe that in order to reach a just, equitable and truly liberated world, oppressed people must take collective action to build power locally, nationally and globally. ”
Koketso Moeti has a long background in civic activism and has over the years worked at the intersection of governance, communication and citizen action. She currently serves as the founding executive director of amandla.mobi, a community of over 230,000 people working to turn every cellphone into a democracy-building tool to ensure that those most affected by injustice—low-income Black women in particular—can take collective action on issues affecting their lives. In 2018 she was announced as an inaugural Obama Foundation Fellow. This comes after being a 2017 Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow. She is also a reference group member of the Civic Tech Innovation Network and the deputy chairperson of the SOS Coalition, a coalition of South African organisations committed to and campaigning for public broadcasting in the public interest. When not working, Koketso can be found writing and has been published by Salon, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, City Press, Africa is a Country and The Mail & Guardian, among others.