| Position: | Advisory Board Member |
| Occupation/Industry: | Broadcasting |
Born to Jonas and Violet Matlou of the African National Congress of South Africa, born in exile in Gaborone, Botswana. She lived in Tanzania for three years with her family, and in Accra, Ghana, not long after the Kwame Nkrumah coup of 1966. Upon completion of her Associate’s degree in Journalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, she returned to Botswana, worked with the Nigerian embassy in Gaborone as an Administrative Assistant to the First Secretary before joining the Botswana Department of Information and Broadcasting. She has worked for Radio Botswana as an anchorwoman and traveled with Ketumile Masire, the former President of Botswana on Presidential trips abroad, and during one of her travels, she had the opportunity to interview former President Nelson Mandela during a SADC conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. After ten years at Radio Botswana she migrated to the United States to continue her education. She thus obtained a Bachelors degree in Radio, Television and Film from Howard University in Washington D.C. with honors Nkope is married, and resides in the United States with her family.