Caster Semenya to speak at a Harvard event soon
South African Olympic gold medalist and global advocate Caster Semenya is set to take center stage at Harvard University on April 12, 2025, as the keynote speaker at the prestigious Women in Power Conference.
Semenya, whose athletic career includes multiple gold medals across the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Commonwealth Games, will address the theme “Reimagining Power: Establishing a New Legacy.”
Her keynote is expected to center on personal strength, identity, and redefining power in the face of adversity.
Ahead of her appearance, Caster reflected on her journey, saying: “They can take me off the track, but they can’t stop me from running.”
Her words echo her ongoing battle with World Athletics over controversial regulations that require female athletes with differences in sex development to lower their natural testosterone levels in order to compete.
Semenya has consistently rejected the policy, calling it discriminatory. A legal challenge to these rules continues, with a final ruling pending from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.
In 2023, Semenya scored a symbolic victory when the ECHR ruled in her favor on the basis of human rights — yet the regulations remain in force.
Despite being sidelined from the track, Semenya remains determined to champion change.
“God created me for a purpose – to fight for what’s right and to speak the truth. No stain in my life, or any person, can take that away from me,” she affirmed.
