Ntshadi Mofokeng

Ntshadi Mofokeng is a cultural worker who writes and curates, organises to support artists’ rights, and engages with cultural policy and diplomacy. She is contributing to the proliferation of narratives about and experiences of contemporary dance from Africa, as well as the performing arts more broadly. Her experience as an interdisciplinary arts administrator includes working with the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town and Gregory Maqoma Industries as well as serving on the inaugural national steering committee of the Theatre and Dance Association (TADA). She has been selected as an International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) Global Fellow and the inaugural class of the Sustaining Theatre and Dance (STAND) Foundation Leadership Initiative. Prior to that, she served in various organising and management roles within Equal Education, a youth led social movement. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Political Science.

What drew you to the M.A. in Arts Politics:

Olivia has always dedicated herself to making the world a better place, and from an early age, discovered how the arts hold the tool for greater societal change or simply challenging one person's perspective. Committing herself to the life of an artist, Olivia's passion for art activism soon led to her wanting to be an advocate for these artists themselves. It is this desire for improving art policy and for art activism that drew Olivia to the M.A. in Arts Politics, where she will have the opportunity to be surrounded by like-minded artists while gaining new knowledge and tools to help her follow her aspirations.