Her Excellency Ambassador Dr. Antoinette Carole Grace Mbarga is an awards winning Human Rights Advocate, and community activist with a heartfelt visible commitment to serve the world at local and global levels. She’s the current United Nations Global Peace Ambassador. Born and raised in Cameroon, she’s been residing in the Washington Metropolitan area for several decades. She serves as the current Senior Consultant Advisory Global Committee and Liaison USA for the Diaspora Innovation Institute. As an entrepreneur she is the CEO and Founder of Afiri Consulting International and The Mbarga Project. As a community leader, she has 20+ years of professional experiences working with individual from disparate socio-economic backgrounds, especially Latino or African immigrants, at risk youth and low-income families and people with disabilities. As a Community Activist she often uses her social media handles to raise awareness on domestic violence awareness, human trafficking, women, and girls’ rights as well as high profile Human Rights violation cases in the international community. She was instrumental in making public the recent racial discrimination endured by African immigrants fleeing the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
In 2017as a passionate advocate for the empowerment of women and girls she founded the Miss Africa USA Internship Program with full support from the Miss Africa USA Pageant. The internship focuses on the education of the girl child with an emphasis on encouraging black girls to pursue careers in the STEM field (Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). She served as Congressional Intern for Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee (D); successfully organized a “Do Not Cancel the DV Lottery” community protest before Congress and the White House. Here are a few of her awards and nominations for outstanding services to the community.