Mpindi Abaas is a trained community development worker and Journalist with 5 years full time experience in practical community development work and corporate work.

He is currently working as a Program Coordinator at the Global Health Corps Office in Uganda.

Mpindi holds a Masters Degree in International Development atVirtual University of Uganda.

He is pending graduation for a Masters Degree in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies fromMakerere University. He also holdsa Bachelor’s Degree in Adult and Community Education ofKyambogo Universityand a Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication fromUMCAT School of Journalism and Masscommunication .He is currently pursuing a second

He is the CEO of Global Media Enterprise a media company with focus in events management, publishing and graphics.

Mpindi is the brain behind the Inter-institutional Media Challenge, an annual inter-university media challenge to provide journalism students with a platform to show case their skills for possible employment opportunity. This event which brings together university students to compete in news anchoring and reporting, essay writing and photography was started as a response to the skilling Uganda youth and provide them with direct contact with media employers. in 2015,

He launched the Media Challenge Awards to celebrate media excellence and create mentorship opportunities for students

Mpindi has worked before with Uganda Youth Forum as a Community Outreach Coordinator on the USAID/PEPFAR/CAF/ABY project. The ABY project whose goal is to ‘Preserve the African Family in the face of HIV/AIDS’ is an HIV/AIDS prevention program promoting risk avoidance behaviour of abstinence and behaviour change among the youth.