Lori Lake is a Communications and Education Specialist at the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, where she plays a central role in the production of the annual South African Child Gauge and convenes the institute’s child rights courses for health and allied professionals. She serves on the Advocacy Committee in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Child Health Priorities Executive Committee. She is an anthropologist by training and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education. She specialises in making complex ideas accessible to a wider audience and is interested in engaged scholarship that harnesses the power and resources of the university to promote children’s rights, survival and optimal development.