Marinos Bomikazi Lupindo

Biography

Marinos Bomikazi Lupindo is from a small town in Eastern Cape called Matatiele. She is a clinical psychologist completing her community service at a correctional centre. She obtained her undergraduate and honours degrees in psychology at UKZN with first class and her masters with upper second class at UCT. She is passionate about making mental health services more accessible to minority and vulnerable groups as she believes in their power to bring about critical consciousness and emancipation. As such, she co-founded a mental health NPO called Mind Matters and uses social media platforms to provide psychoeducation, advocacy and destigmatize mental illnesses. At Oxford, she hopes to conduct research on anxiety and trauma amongst adolescents and gain skills in short-term interventions at the Cognitive Therapy Centre.