Stéphanie Penanjo is a Cameroonian scientist, a doctoral candidate in botany and ecology at the University of Yaoundé I, and a field assistant at the Millennium Ecological Museum. As Executive Director of JVE Cameroon, she coordinates the organization’s environmental and climate projects. Stéphanie is also the founder of FEMALES (African Women for Leadership in Science), which promotes gender equality in scientific fields in Africa. Her expertise encompasses forest ecology, low-carbon agroecology, climate adaptation, chemical and plastic pollution, as well as gender and scientific leadership. She has published on the charcoal sector in peri-urban areas (2026) and on non-timber forest products in cocoa agroforestry systems (2014).