Lindy Morrison is the Director of the Seed and Knowledge Initiative. She has over 30 years of experience in community development, including six years with the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government in Town and Regional Planning, and the rest within NGOs such as the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), the South African Labour and Development Unit (SALDRU), the Group for Environmental Monitoring, and the Mvula Trust. She has worked her way from intern, technician, and project facilitator to programme manager, provincial director, team leader, and now Director of SKI.

Lindy considers herself fortunate to have had consistently engaging and meaningful work across the field of socio-economic development: from conducting house-to-house surveys on how families benefited from public works and job creation programmes in the 1990s; to working with communities adjacent to conservation areas in the People and Parks programme (pioneering community mapping long before it became mainstream); to assisting with land claims; to establishing fair trade and tourism initiatives; to a Citizen’s Voice programme in the eThekwini Municipality; to managing and implementing large infrastructure projects (schools, water, sanitation); and to managing the Seed and Knowledge programme under Biowatch and AFSA, now transitioning into an independent non-profit company.

Welcomed into diverse communities across South Africa and the region, Lindy feels privileged to have witnessed their resilience and beauty, and remains deeply committed to participatory, community-driven development and food sovereignty. She is now based in the Eastern Cape.