Our next guest is Dr. Frank Kronenberg. He originates from the Netherlands and is a director and co-founder of Shades of Black Works. Frank is Chair of the Board of Directors of Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA), a Non-Profit Organisation based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Frank is co-founder of the Occupational Therapists without Borders movement which inspired a number of international ground-breaking publications which he co-edited and co-authored in Occupational Therapy without Borders-Learning from the Spirit of Survivors in 2005. He continued to co-edit and co-author A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy in 2008 and later the Occupational Therapies without Borders - Volume 2: Towards an Ecology of Occupation-Based Practices in 2011.
Frank works as an international guest-lecturer and consultant at universities in South Africa, North and South America, and Europe. He is formally affiliated with the Zuyd University in the Netherlands, University of Cape Town, California State University Dominguez Hills & Touro University (United States); Schule für Ergotherapie Eckardtsheim (Germany).
Frank conducted doctoral research in occupational therapy at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His phronetic case study with embedded narrative inquiry focused on everyday enactments of humanity affirmations in post-1994 apartheid South Africa, advancing a radical understanding of being human as occupation and health.
Before coming to South Africa in 2006, Frank traveled extensively and worked in projects and programs that aimed to advance the plight of children and adults living with disabilities and youth-at-risk in the United States, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Mexico, and Guatemala.
