Utaara Mootu

Utaara was born in Windhoek on the 19th of January 1996. She began her education in 2002 at Van Rhyn Primary school in Windhoek, and then Concordia secondary school. She then furthered her studies in Business Administration (diploma) at the University of Namibia and continued to a bachelor's (honours) in Public Management majoring in Political Science and International Relations. While at the university, she obtained the best 4th year award in her department of Political Studies and Administration in 2019.[3]

Utaara served as a member in the Learners Representative Council in 2013 and joined various charity programs in church as a child. She also took part in the 2013 high schools battle competition where she took first place in the female's category. In 2016 she became Vice President of Aesthetics a performing arts society in university. She later joined student activism and feminist groups in 2017 through protests and poetry. In late 2017 she joined the Landless People's Movement (Namibia) spearheaded by Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb and become an active activist joining the struggle of the people of Venezuela, genocide and a staunch advocate for land justice.[4]

She became a founding member of the Landless People's Movement transition to a political on the 8th February 2019. In 2018 she served as the interim National Spokesperson for LPM being the youngest spokesperson and executive member of a political party after Independence at the age of 22. During the people's assembly in October 2018 she was elected as the official spokesperson of the party and was elected as the 4th candidate on the party's parliamentary list.[5]

A member of the Pan African Reinasance Country Chapters and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Talent Empowernment Program, she was sworn in as one of the youngest members of the 7th Parliament of Namibia at the age of 24 on 20th March 2020.[6][7]