Shanley Knox

Writer and traveler turned social entrepreneur.

<p>In 2010, I reported on the aftermath of an AIDS crisis in Kakooge, Uganda. After returning home, I made a commitment to invest in the economic growth of individual women in Kakooge, rather than asking for donations from people that had never seen the things I had encountered in Africa.</p> <p>I launched <a href="http://nakateproject.com/">Nakate</a> six months later, and I’ve been running around backstage at one fashion show or another ever since.</p> <p>I also spend a substantial amount of time back in Uganda, or watching documentaries and cooking tacos with my brothers.</p> <p>Aside from my plans to change the lives of women in Kakooge, I also have taken on a certain fetish for painting furniture red, and it turns out I can be convinced to do most anything if bribed with a tall glass of extra strong Porter or an order of crunchy sushi rolls with that spicy mustard sauce I can’t remember the name of.</p>

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