Gladys has been an activist since her student days and sees this as a fundamental part of her life. She has worked in a number of development organisations: The Sached Trust, The English Resource Unit and Agenda Feminist Media Project.
Gladys has been an active board member in four organisations: The Gender AIDS Forum (a founder member); Children First (Chairperson); Umcebo Trust (Chairperson) and Art for Humanity’s Women for Children Project (representing Children First).
Her work experience includes:
- Managing programmes and projects
- Running workshops – particularly in writing skills and gender awareness
- Writing up and assisting people to write up organisational histories and stories
- Facilitating organisational processes
- Conducting evaluations and assessments
- Developing materials (educational and marketing materials)
- Plain language editing
- Providing one-on-one writing skills development support.