Mbalenhle Matandela is an African feminist activist and writer and a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Cape Town. Mbalenhle is the deputy director of Digital Frontiers, leading the gender equality portfolio. Mbalenhle manages online gender capacity-building programmes on gender and organisational change and leadership for gender equality. Previously, Mbalenhle was the lead consultant on gender equality for the AU Research Working Group at Goldsmiths, University of London. Mbalenhle has also partnered with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Nairobi and Africanfeminism.com as a co-editor of Challenging Patriarchy: The Role of Patriarchy in the Rollback of Democracy in the East and Horn of Africa and Civil Rights Defenders’ Building Feminist Practice – A Pocketbook for Human Rights Defenders. Mbalenhle’s research interests include women in African liberation movements, Pan-Africanism, feminist education, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and child and maternal health.