{"id":1163,"date":"2026-04-28T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/ospiti\/melody-seherrie\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:16:52","slug":"melody-seherrie","status":"publish","type":"ospiti","link":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/ospiti\/melody-seherrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Melody Seherrie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melody Seherrie currently serves as the Community Engagement Manager at Gender DynamiX, where she leads initiatives aimed at promoting awareness, inclusion, and tangible support for transgender and gender-diverse communities. Drawing on her background in social work, Melody is deeply committed to advancing human rights, social justice, and equality. In addition to managing the Nali\u2019themba project, her work focuses on amplifying the voices of marginalized and underrepresented groups, fostering dialogue between communities, and building partnerships that drive lasting social change. Melody\u2019s approach combines compassion with advocacy, empowering people to embrace their identities while challenging systems of oppression and discrimination.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Education:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enrollment (2008) at Petrusville High School (completed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B. SW \u2013 Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Social Work (2009) from the University of the Western Cape (unfinished)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>StaR College of the United Nations System &#8211; Nelson Mandela Global Academy for Social Change (2026) (completed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Volunteering:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Before joining Gender DynamiX, Melody used beauty pageants as a tool for transgender activism and raising awareness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has provided social services, interventions, and tutoring to various nongovernmental organizations, as well as to traditional primary and secondary schools and schools for students with special educational needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1164,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"citta":[],"class_list":["post-1163","ospiti","type-ospiti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ospiti\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ospiti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ospiti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festival.cospe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citta?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}