Koketso Moeti

Governance | South Africa

2017 New Voices Fellow

Koketso

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, which challenges injustice by bringing together its community in critical moments to take targeted, co-ordinated and strategic action to make real change.

Prior to this, Moeti worked and consulted for a wide range of national and international organisations. In 2022 she was announced as a Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold fellow. She is also an inaugural Collective Action in Tech fellow; an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity; inaugural Obama Foundation fellow and an Aspen New Voices senior fellow.

Moeti is a founding member of the African Digital Rights Network and an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution‘ initiative. She also serves as a founding reference group member for the Civic Tech Innovation Network.

She is an alumnus of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI) summer institute, hosted by the Sié Chéou-Kang Center at the University of Denver. When not working, she can be found writing and has been published by Context, Project Syndicate, Daily Maverick, City Press, NPR, Al Jazeera and the Mail & Guardian, among others.