Ereshnee is the Executive Director of International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, based in NYC. Since joining in 2007, she has led the expansion of ICSC’s regional networks across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), extending its reach to human rights and victims’ organizations from post-conflict contexts. Her leadership in advancing ICSC’s memory and memorialization work led to the creation of the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR) in 2014, a program she co-founded that pioneered ICSC’s multidisciplinary, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered approach to transitional justice and peacebuilding.
Born and raised in South Africa, Ereshnee holds experience across the non-profit and public sectors and in a range of contexts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and two Master of Arts degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand—the first in Dramatic Arts and the second in Forced Migration Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, focusing specifically on the role of memorialization as a form of symbolic reparations.
