Professional Profile

Bwalya Mulenga

Youth Advocate

Full-Time Student

Contact Details

Blog Email: iamlenga.blog@gmail.com

Instagram: @IAMLENGA

Twitter: @IAMLENGA

Facebook: @IAMLENGA

Academic Email: bwalya.mulenga@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Bwalya is a 3rd-year undergraduate student of Global Health and Social Medicine. She is the student representative for her course cohort. She is responsible for communications between students and senior leadership teams within the department.

Her passion for advocacy extends beyond her blog into her professional career. Bwalya completed an internship at Edumove, where she engaged in a campaign to integrate education with movement to curb health-related issues on the rise in children in the UK.

Bwalya is currently a Youth Advocate within a newly established organisation responsible for publishing the “Help Us Move On” report. She is working to have the recommendations within the report implemented within the Hampshire area, with focus on housing, employment and youth voice.

Bwalya is also co-developing an open-access research methods blog in association with the Centre for Society and Mental Health.