Florence Mafomemeh is a multimedia, backpack journalist and video producer with over six years of experience in producing long and short form video and audio stories, and one year of experience in writing news for online media. She produces general assignment stories and is very passionate about those that impact the lives of ordinary people.

A native of Cameroon in West Africa who currently lives in New York City, Florence graduated from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2019 with a master’s degree in Journalism. While in school, she produced radio and TV News stories on deadline as a one-man band. She also reported news stories around New York City for the NYCITY News Service. Florence was also a news reporter and co-anchor for 219 West, a TV News Magazine that aired on CUNY-TV.

As a field Community Producer at Brooklyn Free Speech TV, Florence produces news stories that highlight issues in East New York and New York City. One of her stories about a non-profit organization that provides valuable resources to the East New York Community won her the George Stoney BFree Award for B-Informed. As a freelance writer for NYCPolitics.com, she wrote outstanding news pieces during the crucial 2021 New York City primary elections where Ranked-Choice voting was used for the first time.

Having lived through many challenging experiences and seeing people going through them everyday, Florence is passionate about telling stories that matter. She is fulfilling her childhood dream of telling ordinary people’s stories that help to inspire others.