Will Cleas Nlemvo is a journalist based in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he was born and raised. He is the founder and a member of Media For Peace, a digital platform that promotes democracy in the Congolese media landscape. His commitment to peace and democracy led him to work in Paris, France from 2019 to 2020 for the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an international organization that represents countries and regions that share French as a common language. Its goal is to foster democracy and its values among its member states. Will Cleas Nlemvo is also an author. His first book, “Un Congolais, Paris et le Virus,” was released in 2022. It tells his own experience as a young foreign worker in France during the COVID-19 pandemic.