Faith Kipkemboi

Faith was born in Kenya and lived in Kerio Valley. Through her brilliant academic performance and her community engagement, she won Kenya Scholar Access Program (KenSAP) and McGill MasterCard Foundation scholarships. She then pursued her nursing training at McGill Ingram School of Nursing in Canada.

She is passionate about advocacy, global health, maternal and child health, primary health care, social justice, entrepreneurship, exercise and yoga. Maternal and child health is both sensitive and close to Faith. After losing her mother and sister to what she deems preventable death, Faith is proactive in addressing maternal and child mortality through policy and health system change, health education, nursing care, research and community action.

In 2019, as a proud McGill MasterCard Nursing graduate, Faith joined an interprofessional team made of medical professionals from Kenya, Canada and Australia to fight for better mental health services in the Asembo community in Kisumu, Kenya. In 2018, Faith founded Cactus Mama Telemental project(CMTP) which utilizes research and lived experience of Kenyan women to address maternal mental health.

Through these partnerships and her robust community development skills, Faith will collaborate with MotherFood International to develop nutritional products and create livelihood opportunities that will ultimately better maternal and child life in Kenya. Since it sometimes gets overwhelming; she practices yoga, and mindfulness and spends time in nature to de-stress.