Juby Peacock
Juby Peacock is both a civic and transformational leader who seeks sustainable ways of responding to problems of adverse poverty and exclusion. She considers herself a Pan-African of repute and believes African countries cannot continue to solve problems as single entities but should seek a more balanced and collective approach. In her opinion, Africa should be interdependent. Using her advocacy and communication skills as a Social Worker, she advocates for policy and legislation reform for marginalised communities. These include people with disabilities and people with mental illness. Marginalised communities often live in abject poverty and are exposed to abuse and alienation.
Juby has sought out knowledge and experience in the use of globally approved monitoring and evaluation skills that inform her advocacy campaigns for these often ostracised communities of people. As a Mandela Washington Fellowship and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung alumnus, she has had the privilege of sitting on both the Mandela Washington Fellowship board for 2016/2017 and now the Regional Leadership Centers for Southern Africa (UNISA). This experience has exposed her to leadership at the regional level and given her the power to work with other regional and continental leaders to attempt to solve and respond to these two particular problems.
Creative Work Juby is a poet of note who, through her poetry, discusses current issues plaguing the world and her nation, including human trafficking, gender based violence, poverty, etc.
2014
Invited by ROAR, a movement of young Christians from the Harvest International Church, to share her poetry in Boise, Idaho, USA.
2014 and 2015 Performed at the first and second annual Word Live events at the Westwood Mantlwaneng theatre in Gaborone, Botswana.
Has been featured several times on “Words”, a radio programme that hosted poets and other wordsmiths on Gabz FM (Gaborone, Botswana).
2014 Performed at the PEPFAR: New Directions for HIV/AIDS seminar event organised by the United States State Department and PEPFAR.
2015
Performed at the Barona Gratitude Gala in Maun.
2016
2016
Performed at the Gaborone International Music and Cultural Week.
Four of Juby’s poems were published by the Kalahari Review, an international online journal review.
Has performed at the Maun International Arts Festival (MIAF I, III, IV and VIII) events hosted by Poetavango Spoken Word Poetry.
2014 Invited to share her poem, Okavango, at the event celebrating the official listing of the Okavango Delta as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO at Gaborone Sun (now Avani).
2015 Invited to share her poem, “Xenophobia”, at the Southern African Youth Forum hosted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2017 Was the closing act with her poem “Fly” at the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship Southern African conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Civic Work and Aspirations • Creative • Motivational Speaker • Thought Leader • Extraordinaire
2017: Initiated and organised a two-day International Disability Seminar in Botswana. Succeeded in bringing Disability Professional, David Gordon, the Director of the Patrick 54 Academic Resource Centre, New York, and other professionals from African countries to Gaborone, Botswana. The attendants of the seminar reached a rapport that even post-seminar has continued to build a working group of organisations that seek to work on disability policy and legislation reform across Africa. 2017: Invited by the African Union to participate in the Model of African Union simulation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she learnt invaluable knowledge on diplomacy and the functions of various organs within the AU. 2018: Invited to run a workshop on harnessing leadership skills at the Children’s Consultative Forum (CCF) orientation 2018 at Mahalapye Cresta Hotel. The functions of the forum include discussing issues affecting education and safety, general wellbeing of children, and making such recommendations as it is considered appropriate to the National Children’s Council (NCC). It liaises with the NCC for advocacy on child-centered
approach to legislation, policies, strategies and programmers. The National Children's forum also liaises with National Children's Council for advocacy on substantive sharing of national resources to be allocated to children's initiatives and activities.
Juby currently presents a show called “God Changed Me” on Now TV and “Voices in the Wilderness” on RERA Christian Online Radio at www.reraradio.com She also has a column, “Back To Eden”, for Diamond Unearthed, a lifestyle Christian magazine for women. Juby Peacock has long term ambitions of managing an African-wide media organisation that teaches the principles of active citizenship, advocacy, youth leadership, journalism and community development. NATIONALITY:
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