Refilwe Nkomo is a Johannesburg based social practice storyteller, artist, curator and educator creating cultural and artistic interventions, programs and installations using various mediums including performance, video and text at the intersection of arts and social justice. Her research and performance have been the recipient of numerous awards and presented in South Africa, South Korea, Ghana, Botswana, Brazil, Germany, the United States of America and Zimbabwe. She has founded and co-founded organizations and platforms including We Are Here (WAH), a non-profit organisation working with men and boys to dismantle gender based violence, Izindlovu Collective which uses arts for social and transformative change and Alternative Processing, a collective which uses photography as a means of engaging social issues.
She holds a MA in Arts and Politics from New York University (Tisch School of the Arts|Art and Public Policy) where she developed the critically acclaimed choreopoem, Songs for Khwezi.