Megan Biesele

Megan Biesele, Director of the Kalahari Peoples Fund, "helped to found the Fund in 1973 along with other members of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group (HKRG). For periods in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, she worked with Ju/'hoan San communities in Botswana and Namibia as an advocate and documentarian, and served as director of a non-governmental organization (NGO), the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia, during the years spanning Namibia's transition to Independence (1987-1992). She is a past member of the Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) of the American Anthropological Association. She currently holds adjunct professorships in anthropology at Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, as well as a Research Associateship at the Texas Archaeological Research Lab of the University of Texas at Austin."