Dr Marjorie Jobson is the National Director of Khulumani Support Group, a community-based membership organisation of victims and survivors of serious human rights violations. Khulumani facilitates processes for dealing with and integrating trauma to promote survivor capacities for self-reliance and social and economic inclusion, access to justice and the restoration of human dignity. Khulumani is a founding member of the global movement, INOVAS (International Network of Victims and Survivors). Marjorie is medical graduate with a specialisation in anaesthesiology. She helped to establish the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Pretoria where she served as a research and training associate for several years. She was appointed a Commissioner for the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities in 2004 and served on various committees of the institution for ten years. She is a founding board member of the KZN-based Siyavuna Development Resource Centre that has pioneered a movement of rural small-scale organic farmers in the struggle for food security. She has provided support to whistle-blowers who suffer serious trauma as a result of exposing corruption, and she is active in the peacebuilding initiatives of SAWID (South African Women in Dialogue).