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Zenande Booi is the Executive Director of the Center. She completed her LLB (JD equivalent) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In South Africa she worked for a number of social justice community organizations including Equal Education, Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Social Justice Coalition- focusing on areas of research and advocacy that included, access to dignified sanitation, quality and equitable education; and safety and security. She then clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke.

She went on to study at Georgetown University Law Center where she completed an LLM in International Legal Studies with a certificate in International Human Rights Law. She later joined the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice as their Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights focusing on research focusing on security of tenure in South Africa¡¯s former homelands in the context of laws governing traditional leadership and mining. Before joining the Center on Race, Law and Justice she was the Lead Land Researcher at the Land and Accountability Research Centre at the University of Cape Town where her research and advocacy focused on security of tenure of rural communities; customary and indigenous tenure systems; and principles related to free, prior, and informed consent as they relate traditional communities.