Marie Thérèse Boubande, was born in Mobaye in the Central African Republic in 1968. She is a teacher and a theologian, who works as a coordinator among Protestant women as part of the project Plateforme des Confessions Religieuses de Centrafrique (PCRC). Together with the organisation, InovarCA, she is helping to put together an interdenominational House of Peace and Religions in Bangui, which will serve as a national memorial and education centre. She lives in Bangui.