Ewi Stephanie Lamma

Ewi Lamma has more than nine years of experience in research and development. Currently, Lamma is an environmental and climate justice advocate at Forests, Resources and People and director of programs at the Pan African Centre for Climate Policy, where she focuses on developing entrepreneurship support and programs that facilitate the representation and channeling of rural voices (women and youth) at national and international levels. To bridge the intergenerational gap in natural resource management and build the capacities of young women for climate justice, Lamma added a youth component to her radio program Eco-voice developed programs on climate and WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) education; and joined the Youth Advisory Board of the Youth against Slavery Movement. She holds two master’s degrees: one in Natural Resource and Environmental Management and one in Christian Education. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and is working towards establishing an all-girl climate change education institution where she will work with regulatory bodies like the Cameroon National Assembly and the UN Environmental Programme to see responsible decisions on sustainable natural resource management in Cameroon and Africa.