Norton Tennille

Treasurer and Director of Institutional Development, Fundraising and Financial Management

Norton Tennille is the founder of SAEP and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. A former Rhodes Scholar, he practiced environmental and federal regulatory law in Washington, DC for 25 years before moving to Cape Town to establish SAEP in 1994. He is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. He was a founding Director of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham and served on the General Alumni Board of UNC: Chapel Hill. During his career as an environmental lawyer he received numerous awards from environmental organizations and headed the Balliol College Alumni Association in the United States.

Send Norton an email -- Norton@SAEP.org

Luyanda Kota

Manager, ADT Teach and Finances and Computers

Luyanda Kota was appointed by SAEP as the Manager for ADT Teach, Finance and Computers in August 2010. He got an introduction to the Non-Profit Organisation sector when he started becoming a volunteer for IkamvaYouth in 2004. While at IkamvaYouth he became the first volunteer to get a full time position when he took a role as a Lab Manager in 2007. In 2008, he was promoted to be IkamvaYouth Director for the Western Cape branches, a position he retained until he joined SAEP.

Luyanda comes from a financial and information technology backgrounds and has worked for the City of Cape Town (Cape Metropolitan Council), Capespan and UCT (iNCUDISA). He is also an entrepreneur who started his business in 2004 by developing technologies for other companies such as Simply Said and Done and other organisations such as Laphumilanga Youth Development Association and the Centre for Rural Legal Studies (CRLS).

He has a 3 year National Diploma in Financial Information Systems from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Luyanda's achievements includes but not limited to meeting Giorgio Napolitano (Italian President) in 2007 in Rome, received IkamvaYouth Mentor of the year in 2009 and was awarded a certificate of appreciation by TSiBA as a Hero in 2010.

Luyanda has just finished his first year at SAEP and is looking forward to an interesting second year.

Katie Huston

Fundraising, Institutional Development and Research

Katie Huston joined the SAEP team in April 2011 to work on fundraising, institutional development, media and research. A native of Royal Oak, Michigan, she first fell in love with South Africa as an exchange student at the University of Cape Town in 2006 and 2007, when she taught journalism and mentored a school newspaper at Zisukhanyo Secondary School. After earning her BA in Journalism at UMass Amherst, she spent two years in England as a Marshall Scholar, where she earned an MA in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and an MSc in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. 

While she loved England and misses home, Katie is thrilled to be back in Cape Town since October 2010. This year, in addition to working on fundraising and institutional development, she taught a creative writing class at Sophumelela Secondary School for SAEP's Arts Programme. In her spare time she enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, running, hiking and baking cookies.

Send Katie an email: katie@saep.org.

Blair Saunders

Volunteer

Blair Saunders is from McLean, Virginia and graduated in May of 2011 from the College of William and Mary with a BA in History with Honors. She has been volunteering at SAEP since September of 2011, working in both the Early Childhood Development and Media Departments. Blair enjoys meeting new people, traveling (she misses Florence where she spent a semester abroad, especially the pizza!), cooking, listening to live music and dancing (poorly).

In June of 2012 she will enroll at the University of Virginia, where she hopes to complete their Post Baccalaureate Pre Medical Program and be one step closer to medical school and becoming a Doctor!

Anna Teske

Fundraising & Media Volunteer

Anna Teske was born in Chicago, Illinois and completed her Bachelors degree with majors in International Studies, Political Science and a minor in African Studies at the University of Wisconsin. In her third year of university, she studied abroad at the University of Cape Town and fell in love with the city.

Anna has recently returned from two years living and travelling around Asia, where she worked as an elementary school English teacher and adult English tutor. Her experience in the education sector in several countries has ignited a passion to work toward equal educational opportunities for all learners, bringing her once again to Cape Town to work with SAEP.

In her free time, Anna enjoys spending time with friends and family, meeting new people, running, reading, drawing and cooking.