Pato Kelesitse is a sustainable development practitioner and advocate for climate justice, with a gendered lens, as a key pillar of development. She engages in conversation as a primary tool of advocacy. Her experience in advocacy includes youth and community engagement, conversation facilitation, and project coordination. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Accounting and Finance and is pursuing a Masters of Arts in Development Studies at the University of Botswana.

Kelesitse is the founder of Sustain267 and the host of the Sustain267 Podcast, a series of conversations on climate change and sustainability with Africans to amplify their voices and solutions within the climate justice movement. She has previously served as the coordinator of Resilient 40, a network of over 60 youth climate activists and professionals, representing 29 African countries. At present, she is a consulting project officer at South African Climate Action Network, a part of the world wide Climate Action Network (CAN).

Kelesitse previously represented Africa, as one of 8 youth globally at UN Climate Summit in 2014 addressing world leaders on climate change as a global priority. In 2019 she was named by Wilton Park, an Executive Agency of the UK Foreign Office, as one of the “40 under 40 African Leaders for Climate Resilience”. Kelesitse is a Climate Reality Leader trained in 2018, in Los Angeles, USA.