Sindi-Leigh McBride

Sindi-Leigh McBride is a writer from Johannesburg, and a PhD Candidate at the University of Basel, where her doctoral research explores the politics and poetics of climate change in South Africa and Nigeria. She is currently a research fellow at Creative Knowledge Resources, an interdisciplinary project at the University of Cape Town that seeks to document and study socially engaged art. She is also a research trainee at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), where she investigates structural barriers to youth livelihoods in Africa. Her arts criticism and short stories have appeared in Africa’s a Country, Artthrob, The Johannesburg Book Review, The Mail & Guardian and other outlets.