{"id":604,"date":"2023-04-04T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=our_fellows&#038;p=604"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:31:27","slug":"relebohile-moletsane","status":"publish","type":"our_fellows","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/relebohile-moletsane\/","title":{"rendered":"Relebohile Moletsane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Relebohile (Lebo) Moletsane is Professor and the JL Dube Chair in Rural Education in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. As part of her Chair in rural education, she has worked in South African rural schools and communities, focusing on teacher development around such issues as poverty alleviation, HIV &amp; AIDS, gender inequality and gender-based violence as barriers to education and development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Moletsane\u2019s work focuses on addressing sexual violence with girls and young women in rural communities. As part of this, she is co-PI with Claudia Mitchell, of an IPaSS grant: Networks for change and well-being: Girl-led \u2018from the ground up\u2019 approaches to addressing sexual violence in Canada and South Africa. She is co-editor (with Claudia Mitchell) of the 2018 book, Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speak Back Through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">As recognition for her work on addressing poverty in rural communities, Moletsane was the 2012 winner of the Distinguished Women in Science (Humanities) Award presented by the National Department of Science and Technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","focus_area":[93],"expertise":[152,105],"class_list":["post-604","our_fellows","type-our_fellows","status-publish","hentry","focus_area-gender","expertise-education","expertise-gender-equity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_fellows"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus_area?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertise?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}