Mthetheleli Ngxeke, or MT, is the Project Coordinator for the Global Freedom Fellowship program, A citizen of Cape Town, South Africa, he is an entrepreneur, speaker and leader with lived experience. His organizing and leadership started while he was incarcerated for 13 years in South Africa; it motivates him to work tirelessly to be a change agent and the role model that he never had. Before working full-time with Incarceration Nations Network, MT worked as a reintegration leader for The Message South Africa, part of a global partnership of organizations working together to raise up generations of urban heroes. He supported formerly incarcerated and incarcerated men and women in job readiness, and also trained them to become baristas. MT is an advisor for Beyond the Bars, which supports women in prison in South Africa, and is Chairman of the SA Community Corrections’ “Offender’s Desk.”
