Media & the Public Trust | Elna Boesak

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Elna Botha-Boesak’s career as South African journalist, debate moderator and public speaker spans more than thirty years. Her work as media worker includes radio and television programme hosting, documentary production and feature writing. In her research, in-depth investigations and lectures Elna prioritises perspectives, narratives, experiences and developments that are hidden in the cracks of public attention. She has in the past shed light on challenging social and economic realities such as white supremacy and racism, chronic poverty, backstreet abortion and gansterism. In a six part radio docu-drama series she offered an extensive analysis of the nature and legacy of the slave society of South Africa. As public forum facilitator Elna creates safe spaces for honest, credible and constructive dialogue and often tackles contentious and sensitive matters. In public lectures she focuses on matters related to reconciled diversity, the many faces and places of oppression and violence and gender equality and the empowerment of women. She has a particular interest in communication ethics and the impact of the media on harmful societal thinking and doing patterns. She is at present residing in the USA while she is completing a PhD (Religion and Gender) at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa on the role of globalised strategic mass media communication as a vehicle for harmful grand narratives. She is a research associate of the Chicago-based organisation the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference and was one of the organisation’s delegates that attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York in 2015.

Learn more about Elna Boesak at her website: http://www.elnaboesak.com/