Sibusiso Vonde-r Fihlani is a young art-vist , a Drama therapist and applied Drama/Theatre facilitator and Festival director Ezempilo Mental Health Festval who worked at Rural Health Advocacy Projects (RHAP) & Nkosi’s Haven with young people living with HIV. He is also a chairperson for an organisation called “Art That Matters”. He is an Atlantic Senior Fellow with Tekano for health equity based in South Africa.

This young leader has been has been awarded with numerous awards ranging from the Dr John Kani award for out outstanding theatre performance, direction and community based drama for social change under the wits school of art, the Yvonne Banning Applied drama Awarded for outstanding ethnographic research in applied drama by a postgraduate student, Justice Edwin Cameron award for social change.