Mphango joins NMPC as the Inclusive Research and Education Practices Coordinator. A passionate healthcare advocate, she is committed to advancing health equity and systemic change, particularly within the Black community. Her professional and advocacy work is driven by her personal experience navigating the healthcare system—managing PCOS, neurodivergent conditions, and just about surviving a cancer diagnosis in her early 20s. Mphango graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a degree in International Relations and Global Development, achieving a First Class for her dissertation, “Higher Education, Race and Racism: An Investigation into Systemic Racism and How it Manifests in HE.” She has held leadership roles as Welfare and Community Officer and President of Leeds Beckett Student Union, served as a trustee for two charities, and sat as a university student governor. Currently, she is a member of the Young Lives vs Cancer Voice Board, advocating for young cancer patients, while also supporting Black Woman Rising as a project support officer and facilitator for a support group for women of colour under 40 impacted by cancer. She is in the process of co-founding her charity, Living Beyond Cancer, which aims to raise awareness and provide resources to help young adults in their 20s rebuild their lives after a diagnosis. Outside of her professional work, Mphango is passionate about entrepreneurship, global and UK politics, self-improvement, understanding childhood, and religion.