Vanessa Farr specializes in gender and crisis, with an increasing focus on the gendered impacts of climate disruption. She has worked for the past two decades on women, peace and security, and a spectrum of issues related to disaster response across Africa and the Islamic world, and her fieldwork is helping her identify patterns in how religious and other forms of extremism intersect with climate crisis, resulting in the destruction of waters and soils, food insecurity, militarization and gendered violence. Vanessa lives on the edge of Zeekovlei and is part of the community raising awareness around Cape Town’s water issues and working for healthy, collaborative governance of our water commons.