Professor Puleng Segalo is a Fulbright scholar, National Research Foundation rated researcher, and a professor of psychology currently holding the position of Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her areas of specialization include Community Psychology, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Public Health. Her research focuses on historical trauma, visual methodologies, decolonisation, and gendered suffering. Segalo has won both national and international awards in recognition for her research excellence. She is the current 2023-2025 research fellow at the University of Kansas’ African Studies Center. Prof Segalo has made an indelible mark in academia through her scholarship which uses innovative visual/artistic research methodologies that create space for expressing the unspeakable traumatic experiences of existing within oppressive political regimes. She has contributed to trauma scholarship within the psychology discipline over the years.