Dr Hibist Kassa has been Research Coordinator at WoMin African Alliance, a non-profit that supports women on the frontlines of resisting extractivism. She completed her doctorate in the University of Johannesburg in 2019. Hibist is a Research Associate at the Centre for African Studies and Chair in Land and Democracy in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. She has also been an Executive Committee member of Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN).