dr. pumla gobodo-madikizela

FreshFly has collaborated with the John Templeton Foundation on several videos — from animated PBS promos to thought-provoking grantee profiles.

This video introduces the 2024 winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Filming was done in South Africa — post production was handled at FreshFly.

Dr. Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor and South African National Research Foundation’s Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University. Her insights into the mechanisms of trauma and forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa have created a globally-recognized model for social healing in the aftermath of conflict, a model she calls “the reparative quest.”