Ms Bernadette Muthien
Ms Bernadette Muthien
Western Cape Cultural Commission
CNA 9
Feminist, Womanist, Bosadi Theorisations
Partnerships and Gender Equality
Bernedette Muthien has held executive and senior management positions in academia, civil society and the public sector in South Africa and abroad for over twenty years . She is an accomplished facilitator, researcher and poet who designs, implements and evaluates projects for diverse institutions locally and internationally.
Until recently Bernedette Muthien 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. She was the first Fulbright-Amy Biehl fellow at Stanford University and holds postgraduate degrees in Political Science from the University of Cape Town (Dean’s Merit List), and Stellenbosch University (Andrew W Mellon Fellow).