Keneilwe is a Participatory Natural Resource Management Practitioner with 12 years of experience and has worked in different communities around Botswana and some SADC countries such as Kenya and South Africa.

She is experienced in designing and implementing small to large-scale environmental conservation and livelihood projects and has held both junior and senior positions with supervisory roles.

She is currently pursuing PhD in Environmental Sustainability Education with Rhodes University in South Africa, focusing on the collaborative learning and participatory processes in communal rangelands management in Gunotsoga village, located in the Okavango Delta East Panhandle in Botswana.

She has expertise in sustainable development of pro-nature enterprises, transdisciplinary/ multistakeholder research and practice, community-based and community-led resource management, holistic environmental management approaches, landscape restoration, collaborative and participatory approaches, policy analysis, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, ecosystem-based adaptation, environmental education and outreach, community engagement and development.

Recently, through Botswana Wild Bird Trust, she has been implementing the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project as the senior Community Development Manager.