Vuyisile Ncube

Lead Corporate Campaigner: Making Clean Energy, Just and Equitable Earthworks

Vuyisile Ncube is the Lead Corporate Campaigner for the Making Clean Energy Clean initiative at Earthworks. She leads the campaign’s advocacy for automakers to transform their supply chains so they are equitable, and free from human rights and environmental rights abuses.

She began her career as a postgraduate researcher for the South African Research Chair in Mineral Law in Africa and has worked on strategic litigation to uphold communities’ right to a healthy environment and on land and housing rights for marginalized communities.

Following her experience in public interest litigation, she was the 2020-2021 Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellow at Human Rights Watch where she did research and advocacy on mining-affected communities’ right to a healthy environment.

She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a graduate of the University of Cape Town where she earned an LLB and LLM (with distinction).