Fumane Portia KhanareFumane Portia Khanare is a Senior Lecturer and BEd Honours Coordinator in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of the Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on rural education in particular, voice of care and support for learners with neurodiversity needs in rural populations, orphans and vulnerable learners due to HIV and AIDS, and the holistic wellbeing of children and youth in Black communities. She combines asset-based approaches and arts-based research methods as pathways to advance young people’s voices and agency for systematically enabling learning environments. She has been a MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative Fellow at Columbia University, the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). In 2017 she was honoured to be one of the Child and Youth Institute Laureates under the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Read More Read Less