Mbanwei Cynthia is a social worker with a Bachelor’s in Women and Gender Studies with Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea, Cameroon. Cynthia leverages her academic background and working experience to DESERVE’s community engagement for the health and well-being of girls and women.  Apart from leading Light Up A Life (LUAL) as its CEO, Cynthia has volunteering experience with the Northwest Regional Delegation of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, the Community Initiative for Sustainable Development (COMINSUD), Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare (CAMNAFAW) , SEEPD Programme and SAMA’s CARE. She is a Georgetown peer educator on HIV/AIDS in the Department of Care and Treatment at the Etoug-Ebe Baptist Hospital in Yaounde and Family Planning and breast cancer peer educator with the Women’s Health Programme (WHP).

Cynthia loves to share a smile. She has passion in rekindling hope in the hopeless and preventing discrimination.