Melvis Kimbi Lu is a very creative Cameroonian Journalist who has work experience in mainstream journalism as a news anchor, reporter and radio producer and also in corporate communication. She speaks English and French fluently. She has the proven abilities in leadership, motivating people toward common mission and effectively organizing and putting to use available resources to that end with wide-ranging experience in effectively interacting with people of various ages, socio-economic, political and cultural backgrounds.
An energetic gender activist with a vast experience in reporting on gender and development issues, she was selected to represent young women at the 2015 Financing for Development Conference in Addis in 2015. Melvis is a member of a number of associations to promote the rights of young people and other topical issues like climate change and she banks on the use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and online blogging to reach her goals.