Christine Jeske

Christine Jeske is a PhD student in cultural anthropology, who holds an MBA in international economic development. She has worked for several years in Nicaragua, Western China, and South Africa in a variety of teaching, community development, and business development roles. As a co-director of a microfinance project in South Africa, she became interested in the topic of how work has played a central role in racial and economic oppression in South Africa, where participants in the work force and those seeking to shape the work force often operate with conflicting means and ends. Her research aims to illuminate the underlying systems and motivations behind work in order to identify and seek a more socially just South Africa.

See what Christine Jeske’s research turned up in her report here.