Yvonne Phyllis

agrarian and land and labor researcher

Yvonne Phyllis works as the director of The Forge. The Forge is a community-centered, progressive, feminist, pan-African project in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

Through her work at The Forge, she has worked with a wide range of professionals, community groups and organizations, social movements, women’s organizations, and trade unions. Prior to joining The Forge, Yvonne worked as a lecturer at Rhodes University, Makhanda, where she taught comparative politics and international relations at the Department of Political and International Studies. Phyllis’s research interests include farm workers and dwellers’ lived experiences and struggles, equality, feminist futures, agrarian reform, and land redistribution in South Africa.