OUR TEAM
Lynne Rippenaar-Moses is our Founder and Director. She is also a communications, public relations (PR) and media relations specialist who has worked in the publishing, communications, public relations, and media industry for the last 20 years. She has worked as general reporter, financial journalist, radio producer and sub-editor for media outlets such as the Cape Argus, Summit TV (now Business Day TV), Financial Mail, Business Day, Business Report, Cape Talk radio and New Media Publishing.
She has worked in the higher education sector as a science writer, communications, PR and media relations specialist in Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Corporate Communications division, and later as editor of the university’s newspaper, and still continues to work as a communications, PR and media relations specialist in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on a part-time basis. She has 14 years experience as a science writer/communicator, simply put, "translating" research into interesting, simple to understand news articles for the general public.
Lynne has worked on communications and PR projects in the higher education environment with Wits University, Stellenbosch University, and the University of the Western Cape; with government entities like the National Student Fund Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, as well NGOs like the Rupert Education Foundation, Bergzicht Training, Embrace Dignity; and small businesses focused on making a difference in society.
Melissa Siegelaar
Operations Manager & Senior Copywriter |
Aydn Parrott
Copywriter Aydn graduated from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University (SU) and has previously worked as a Personal Assistant to Africa’s first Pulitzer Prize winner Dele Olojede. He has interned at TimesLive and in the marketing and communications department of SU's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He runs his own blog on storytelling Power of Thought Blog. |
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Riaan Salie
Copywriter |
Refiloe (Fifi) Raphasha
Photographer |
Sinovuyo Meth
Finance Assistant
Finance Assistant