Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki is Women Empowerment and Environment Officer of Cameroon Gender and Environment, a non profit devoted to caring for nature while promoting the rights of women.

Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki was born on the 2nd of August 1985, of Cameroon nationality and is married with 4 children. While growing up she developed a strong drive to forge ahead and a spirit to engage people in a life changing process. She grew up in a humble family but thinking success to get success, with high positive thinking mind and knowing the sky was her limit.  Her community is blessed with a natural forest and farmland which provides them with food, water, firewood and animals but despite these resources poverty still hits hard in the community especially within women and girls. Her community believes that the place of the woman is in the kitchen and the girl child is often sent for marriage at adolescent stage. It has been Ernestine's desire to promote the empowerment of girls and inclusive solutions to gender disparities in  environmental protection and empowerment of the women. The works hard for her community to realize the potential of women and work together for a fairer, healthier and happier society.

After completing secondary education, Ernestine went to the university to read Law. While in the university she had to work as domestic worker to get accommodation, feeding and little pay to cover her school needs. It was difficult to emerge. she pent a longer time in university and finally got Bachelors Degree in Common law from the University of Yaounde II, Cameroon in 2011. Being a woman and look upon as a model in her community where girls had little opportunity to go to school, she had to keep the flag flying by working harder and forging ahead to encourage other girls. Ernestine has certificate courses in Conflict Analysis and Conflict Negotiation and Management in 2011, Agroforestry in 2012 , Lay counseling in 2015, Advocacy and Citizen Engagement from Coady International Institute, St Francis Xavier University Canada in 2012 and in Creative Collaboration and Systems Training in 2018 from Creative Action Institute and Fundamentals of Starting and Running a Business from YALINETWOTK.  These courses shaped her vision and made Ernestine see the need to contribute in the development of her community and empowerment of women and girls socially, economically and morally.

2007 opened another page in Ernestine's life with the legalization of Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW) where she is founding member as she saw this as an excellent organization for her to realize her dream to act in the overall interest of the community while protecting the environment, empowering women and girls and  promoting sustainable development. she worked to stop child trafficking in 2010 by sensitizing various Cultural and Development Associations of villages from the North West Region in of Cameroon where child trafficking was common on the effects of child trafficking, Children’s right and the method they can use to stop it as elites of this villages.  She has carried out environmental education for more than 35000women, trained more than 800 farmers on agro forestry techniques in schools, tree nursery and farm land around the forest peripheries to promote soil conservation, developed a tree nursery of 150000 indigenous trees, planted 86000 trees in the Kilum-Ijim forest to regenerate the forest and trained more than 1500community members on bee farming and trained more than 1700 women on entrepreneurship and business skills. Her parents supported her education right up to the secondary level with the little income earned from natural resources. These resources are gradually disappearing due to unsustainable use by man. Ernestine believes these resources need to be protected for the benefit of everyone and developed to improve livelihoods. Ernestine has a strong interest in making communities’ voices heard locally, nationally and internationally. Ernestine believe that the future is in our hands and that true change can only come to our communities if women and the youths build their capacity to take part in sustainable development. There is need to develop our resources and unblock the potentials of rural communities for livelihood improvement. Ernestine believe this development can only be realized if we can change the attitude of the rural poor especially women and youths towards education, income generation and sustainable management and development of the environment. Poverty hit hard in most rural community where resources are found and there is need to tackle this poverty with the resources these people have. Ernestine believes we can put an end to climate crisis by promoting gender just solutions.