Mark Gevisser Editor & Author

Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s foremost authors and journalists. His books include The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers; Lost and Found in Johannesburg; and the award-winning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa’s Dream. His journalism and criticism has been published widely, in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and many other publications. His documentary feature film, The Man who Drove With Mandela, won a Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, educated at Yale University, and now lives outside Cape Town. 

Katie Redford is a lawyer with expertise in human rights, climate change and corporate accountability. She is executive director of the Equation Campaign, which confronts the climate crisis. She was a co-founder and director of EarthRights International, where she worked to hold corporations and other perpetrators legally accountable for human rights and environmental abuses worldwide. Katie received an Echoing Green Fellowship in1995 to establish EarthRights, and has been an Ashoka Global Fellow, a Rockwood Leadership Fellow and a Bellagio Resident Fellow. Katie is a graduate of Colgate University and the University of Virginia School of Law, and a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Massachusetts State Bar.