Vida de Voss


Vida V. de Voss is a Namibian feminist activist, the director of the Namibian feminist organisation Sister Namibia, and a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology.

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. 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" .

Career

De Voss has been a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology since 2013.
De Voss is the director of Sister Namibia, a feminist organisation and publisher of an eponymous magazine, based in Windhoek.
De Voss has also been a guest speaker at the University of Namibia in Windhoek. 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.