Sponsorship to Brilliant Student – Belinda Elikplim Chamenyi

Belinda Elikplim Milagros Chamenyi is an alumna of Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, and a first-class law student, a lady with proven leadership skills from across several international platforms.

During her law degree in Wisconsin, Belinda was determined to understand the policy structures of various cooperations. She worked with organizations implementing the United Nations agenda, including those simulating it.  She joined the African Union Youth Commission as an executive to develop strategies for youth participation in the African Continental Free Trade Era, which was to encourage intra-African trade in the single continental market for goods and services.

She was also a Moot Court Judge at the University of Oxford ICJ simulation, and subsequently, appointed as a committee President at the Universities of Munster (Germany), Jagiellonian (Poland), Sheffield (UK), and the World Youth Summit (South Africa) in simulating the United Nation’s proceedings.

In 2021, she was admitted to the University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) College of Law Dean’s scholarship and received further financial aid from the Dada Foundation – Ghana (DF-Ghana) for her Master of Corporate, Commercial, and Trade Laws program in the US. While in the U.S, she was a Judge Shadowing Extern to  the Federal Bankruptcy Judge, the Honorable Lashonda Hunt, at the U.S Bankruptcy Court for the Northern district of Illinois. She also participated in the U.S National Trial Competition as an expert witness in her school.

Belinda is currently a candidate for the American Bar Examination and hopes to continue her Doctor of  Juridical Science, at the University of Chicago, Illinois the following term. We wish her all the best