Catherine Constantinides

Real Conversations with Jacob Young

This week Jacob visits with Catherine Constantinides.

Constantinides established her first business, SA Fusion, a social enterprise, when she was 16. She was involved in the introduction of the Miss Earth concept to South Africa and was crowned the first Miss Earth South Africa in 2003. She currently serves as director of Miss Earth South Africa.

Constantinides is the co-founder of Generation Earth, a youth-led environmental organization.

In 2013 Constantinides was the youngest of a group of 20 emerging Africans named as an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow.

Constantinides has written for the Huffington Post on climate change politics and the situation in Western Sahara. She is an outspoken critic of the actions of the Moroccan government in Western Sahara, describing the territory as the "last remaining colony in Africa". She has spoken of Western Sahara as an "African state in exile, a cause and people forgotten".

In May 2016 Constantinides was chosen as one of the Mandela Washington Fellows as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative; an initiative of the United States Department of State.

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