Cheryl Frank

Cheryl Frank "is the Executive Director of RAPCAN, a child protection organisation based in Cape Town. She holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at UCT as well as a Social Work degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has worked as a Senior Research Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies, as the Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative at the Open Society Foundation, as a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the UCT, and as a social worker at Nicro. Cheryl's primary interest is in the area of crime prevention and she has written and published in this field as well as in the areas of child justice, restorative justice, policing, victims' rights, child labour and youth violence."

• Trustee, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation