Chifuniro Chiyendausiku is a disease control surveillance assistant at Wandikweza Health Centre in Madisi, Dowa District, Malawi. Born on July 28, 1999, in Malawi, Chifuniro initially trained as a primary school teacher but was drawn to health care due to her passion for the field. She has since pursued a career in the health sector and currently works at Wandikweza Health Centre, where she is dedicated to providing quality health care to her community.

Chika Russell is the CEO of CHIKA’S Foods which produces African handmade snacks. She is a business mentor to startups and a champion of women in business. She created Snacks4Change, which provides girls access to education and builds schools for children across Africa. The European Investment Bank is supporting CHIKA’S Foods through its investment in Alitheia IDF, a gender-lens African investment fund.

Chinedu George Nnawetanma is a development specialist with experience that spans SME finance and advisory, local economic development, youth entrepreneurship development, digital inclusion, and green finance. He is passionate about the economic growth and development of Africa and he has designed and led projects, programs, and partnerships that have directly impacted thousands of businesses and youth on the continent.

Chinonye "Chi Chi" Egbulem is a gender specialist, social-impact thought leader, and racial equity consultant. All of her advocacy work is centered on racial equity, economic empowerment, and the use of mindfulness-based programs for post-traumatic healing.

Chinwe Catherine Eze is a public health microbiologist and chief research scientist at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. With over 20 years of experience in antimicrobial resistance, maternal health, and climate-related infectious diseases, she serves on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She holds a Ph.D. in public health and parasitology. She is a global reviewer for many journals and a contributor to AMR policy frameworks across Africa.

Chioma Okafor is a global health and development practitioner with experience in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She holds a master’s in public health and is passionate about tackling health inequities particularly for women and children in developing nations. She also hosts PanadolXtra: a monthly podcast centered on the Nigerian diaspora experience.

Charles "Chip" Lyons has been president and CEO at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation since January 2010. He served as director of special initiatives for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's global development program. He was also president and CEO of the United States Fund for UNICEF, as well as chief of staff to the executive director, and program officer at UNICEF Mozambique.

Chisina Kapungu is a senior gender and youth specialist for YouthPower Learning at the International Center for Research on Women. In this role, Chisina Kapungu provides technical oversight to research and evaluation projects focused on gender, youth development and adolescent health. She has nearly 15 years of experience as a clinical psychologist, community-based researcher and program developer with special expertise in adolescent health, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She manages research and evaluations designed to build the evidence base about positive youth development and informs the global community on how to strengthen youth's skills, assets, competencies and enabling environment. Prior to joining YouthPower Learning and ICRW in 2015, Chisina was an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Illinois at Chicago leading maternal acnd child projects in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She also worked as a health policy fellow in the office of Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, where she provided scientific and technical expertise identifying emerging health policy issues in women's health, infectious disease, global and domestic public health crisis response, and international development.

Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, a physician, is Zambia's minister of health since August 2016. He is also a member of the National Assembly of Zambia, representing Mansa Central.

Chloé Farand is a freelance climate reporter.