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==Academia and Career== | ==Academia and Career== | ||
She studied at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (formerly known as l'École Supérieure | |||
Internationale de Journalisme de Yaoundé-ESIJY), in Cameroon where she graduated with a BA in | |||
Journalism (audiovisual, Print and Digital Media), and she also holds a Master’s Degree in | |||
Communication and Future Marketing from the GBSB Global Business School in Barcelona, Spain. | |||
As a journalist, she worked as an Anchor / Reporter for the Cameroon Radio Television, and later as | |||
Service Head for New Media at the same National Media in Cameroon, CRTV, where she had earlier | |||
volunteered as a young Journalist. She has also collaborated with the BBC Monitoring - Africa | |||
Service, covering socio-political news. In 2015, she worked briefly as English Journalist for Radio | |||
Environnement, a project under the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, for West | |||
and Central Africa. | |||
When it comes to her experience within the United Nations, Melvis is currently Strategic | |||
Communication Officer for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in Madagascar, also | |||
covering Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros. Before this, she was Communication Officer with the | |||
World Health Organization in Madagascar, playing a central role in contextualising and implementing | |||
the communication strategy for COVID-19 and subsequently the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine. | |||
Melvis also worked as Communication Associate at the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR in | |||
Cameroon (also covering Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe) and as Communication | |||
Assistant at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, in | |||
Cameroon, back in 2015. At the level of the private sector, she was Communication agent with the | |||
‘Agence des Prestations Maritimes,’ APM, a shipping company handling freight in and across the | |||
central African sub region. | |||
She is also a public speaker, interested in solving social problems, complex systems, structured | |||
dialogue and action research. She is a committed advocate for democracy, youth issues, | |||
women/gender, forced displacement and the environment, and she remains committed to many youth | |||
empowerment initiatives. She also belongs to many networks, including and not limited to Journalists’ | |||
networks across Africa and beyond. | |||
She speaks English and French fluently and is very conversant with use of new technologies / social | |||
media. She has authored many human-interest stories within the context of work in the | |||
development/humanitarian domain, with the UN and published editorials on socio-political trends | |||
affecting her life and work, such as the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. | |||
==Special Interests== | ==Special Interests== | ||