Impact Area: Strategic Programme Design & Facilitation, Wellness & Learning, Media & Marketing support
Location: Cape Town
As a dedicated creative learning strategist with more than 10 years of experience working within social impact education, Courtney is devoted to community engagement and driving tangible transformation. She is especially committed to driving this change in historically disenfranchised contexts within her own context and others with similar challenges around the world. This has given her a depth of insight and a nuanced approach to navigating the many complex challenges youth face within an array of learning circumstances, from Khayalitsha to Kayamandi.
She believes in championing youth agency and access to meaningful opportunities, especially when it comes to cultivating learning ecosystems underpinned by collective health & wellbeing in previously underequipped and underserved communities. With an undergrad in Politics & Governance as well as an Honours in Gender & Transformation with a keen focus on decolonial education, Courtney’s path as a budding Futurist has been influenced by her experience as an Allan Gray Scholar (class of 2014) and Fellow (class of 2020) at the University of Cape Town, where youth leadership, contextually responsive entrepreneurship and innovation in context have all been critical principles of her own learning journey and approach to the many spaces she has led and designed.
After gaining years of insights working across executive leadership within government, NGOs, academia and corporate as a learning and impact strategist, pursuing a Master’s in Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh in 2023 as a Chevening Fellow further expanded my interest and capacity to build more meaningful learning ecosystems in South Africa. As a believer in driving radical systemic change, I am always challenging myself and others not only to come up with better solutions, but more importantly, to ask ourselves and each other better questions in order to do so.
As a Course Designer and Senior Facilitator at Lucha Lunako, I’ve been able to lean in, effectively test and deploy many of these approaches in context, and look forward to bringing more systems thinking tools into the way we approach our offerings, as well as the extended reach our learning experiences could have in future.
- You are interested in Gender justice within education
- Have a curiosity about Futures Thinking and how to apply it in your context
- Want to use more creative learning tools in your facilitation practice
- Want to bring wellness as a principle and process into your learning materials and facilitation
- Have an interest in creative capacity building within culturally diverse communities