Ereshnee is the Executive Director of ICSC. Since joining in 2007, she has led the expansion of ICSC’s regional networks across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), extending its reach to human rights and victims’ organizations from post-conflict contexts. Her leadership in advancing ICSC’s memory and memorialization work led to the creation of the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR) in 2014, a program she co-founded that pioneered ICSC’s multidisciplinary, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered approach to transitional justice and peacebuilding.

ICSC is the only organization Ereshnee knows that approaches human rights, social justice, and peacebuilding through the powerful lens of memory, art, and public history – issues that have always been deeply meaningful to her. Through ICSC’s programs, she has witnessed the profound transformation of survivors who, by breaking their silence, reclaim their voices and sense of self. She has also seen divided communities begin to heal and rebuild trust through dialogue and participatory arts methodologies. At ICSC, she has seen the power of connection, community, and human resilience.

Born and raised in South Africa, Ereshnee’s work bridges the worlds of arts, culture, justice, and human rights. With experience across the non-profit and public sectors and in a range of contexts, Ereshnee holds a Bachelor of Arts and two Master of Arts degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand—the first in Dramatic Arts and the second in Forced Migration Studies.  She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

In her free time, Ereshnee delights in spending time with her five-year-old son, gardening, and nurturing connections with friends and family through food and shared meals.