Vida de Voss

Vida V. de Voss is a Namibian feminist activist, the director of the Namibian feminist organisation Sister Namibia, and a former lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She now teaches English at Private School Swakopmund.

Vida de Voss
Nationality	Namibian
Occupation(s)	Feminist activist and Teacher
Known for	Sister Namibia

Education

De Voss earned a master's degree in philosophy from Stellenbosch University in 2006, and her master's thesis was entitled, Emmanuel Levinas on ethics as the first truth.^[1] In 2010, she earned a master's degree in English literature from Iowa State University, and her thesis was entitled The Identity Challenge in Toni Morrison's "Paradise" .^[2]

Career

De Voss was a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology from 2013 until 2021.^[3]

She presently works at Private School Swakopmund where she teaches English to Grade 9 & 10 Students.

De Voss is the director of Sister Namibia, a feminist organisation and publisher of an eponymous magazine (first published in 1989), based in Windhoek.^[4][5] De Voss has also been a guest speaker at the University of Namibia in Windhoek.^[6] In March 2016, she spoke to an audience of hundreds of women at a conference at Windhoek's Safari Court Hotel to commemorate International Women's Day.^[7]