Over twenty years Bernedette Muthien has held executive and senior management positions in academia, civil society and the public sector in South Africa and abroad. She is an accomplished facilitator, researcher and poet who designs, implements and evaluates projects for diverse institutions locally and internationally. She served part-time on South Africa’s Constitutional Commission for Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights, where she was responsible for Parliamentary Liaison, Research and Policy Development, and Public Education. She was also Deputy Director General: Social Transformation and Economic Empowerment in the Presidency, where she served in the high level Economic Cluster. She has over 200 publications and conference presentations, some of which have been translated from English into at least 16 other languages.