Ryan Fortune is the founder and CEO of Ryan Fortune Communications, a South African communications firm specializing in: public relations; video production, and consulting; digital media marketing; and content curation, production, and dissemination. He received a national diploma, with distinction, in journalism from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and has nearly 30 years of professional experience as a news journalist, film and television writer and producer, and public relations agent and consultant. 

Mr. Fortune has worked in senior communication positions for the international emergency medical NGO, Doctors Without Borders, the University of Cape Town's African Climate and Development Initiative, and South Africa's First National Bank, which was voted the World's Most Innovative Bank at the 2012 BAI-Finacle Global Banking Innovation Awards.

At the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, Mr. Fortune was the senior producer for the radio station. As co-owner and producer of Red Pill Productions in Johannesburg, Mr. Fortune produced the award-winning independent film, Triomf, and was the head writer and story conceptualizer for Hard Copy (SABC 3).

Under the banner of Rainbow Warriors International, a non-profit trust he established in 2017, Mr. Fortune has collaborated on several community urban gardening projects in South Africa, and has a great interest in whole systems thinking, regenerative agroforestry, and the use of plant medicines as tools for deepening ecological consciousness. From 2012 to 2014, he lived and worked in a remote, rural, off-grid community, and came to believe that such intentional ways of living should be greatly encouraged. Additional interests include digital and media trends, South African and international arts and culture, political philosophy, and urban agriculture.

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