Catherine Constantinides (born 27 August 1982[citation needed]) is a South African thought leader, environmentalist focused on climate change, food and water security and waste management, a social entrepreneur, social justice activist and human rights defender and beauty pageant titleholder.
[2] During 2013, Constantinides was the youngest of a group of 20 emerging Africans named as an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow.
[citation needed] Constantinides has written for the Huffington Post on climate change politics and the situation in the Western Sahara.
[3] She is an outspoken critic of the actions of the Moroccan government in the Western Sahara, describing the territory as the "last remaining colony in Africa".
[8] Constantinides was recognised with the Ubuntu Youth Diplomacy Award in 2016 at an event hosted by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.