Life & Work with Cindy Dikoume

Today we’d like to introduce you to Cindy Dikoume.

Hi Cindy, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I am originally from Cameroon and I was raised as a nomad. My father had a job that made my family move a lot. I grew up with the opportunity to meet people from different parts of the world and that really opened my mind up.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I don’t believe anything in life is smooth sailing. Nothing has been easy so far but they say God will not give his toughest battles to his weak soldiers or something around that. Some of my struggles was having a set plan or an established goal and life knocking it all down because I never put into consideration the unknown factors that life always seems to throw.

A couple of years back, while I was attending school to get my bachelor’s in communication studies, I had all these goals of working with a major nonprofit and moving to California and being established. However, life took a different turn and not only did I receive my bachelor’s but I was expecting my first and only child at that point and had secured a place to move to California to get my master’s in Public Administration.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I consider myself a jack of all traits but mainly a creative because I am innovating.

I have ideas of things I would like to create and sometimes those things are graphic but most times, they are words. I use my platform to challenge the current status quo of what a “respectable educated young woman” should look like or should act like. I want to shake the patriarchy with their old paganism ways of viewing women and objectifying them. I want people to know that a young woman naked or fully clothed does not determine her level of smart in this world.

I also use my platform to share body positivity. I encourage women to love their natural bodies. You will see me post my stretch marks and my scars and I get personal with my follower base by being nothing but open and genuine.

Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers?
I would like for the readers to know that no matter where you are heading, if the road is rocky, it’s not a sign to give up. It’s a sign to buckle up because sometimes you need to be tested before you make it to your destination because the journey is always more fun.

I would not say I have “made it” yet in life but I would say I have made it pretty far and I’m happy to have had an amazing support system with me.

Also behind this model/ social media Influencer is a young mother of a little two and a half baby with both a bachelor’s in communication studies and a master’s in public administration.

I have been blessed thus far to have worked with amazing brands that do have aligning values as mine.

Contact Info:

• Email: alphaklassinc@gmail.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/Alphachiq

Image Credits:
All the professional shots were taken by graphinking photography