Listen first
Programs should begin with the lived realities of survivors, caregivers, families, and community partners.
Meet Our Leadership Team
The people behind the mission
Leadership shaped by survival, service, and care.
Mabazza Foundation is guided by people who understand that healing is not only medical. It is emotional, communal, and strengthened when purpose becomes action.
Lived experience
Survivorship informs the work
Service
Purpose becomes practical action
Stewardship
Careful use of every resource
Community
No one should heal alone
One shared direction
Different strengths. One commitment to dignity.
Our leadership brings together personal survivorship, military service, nonprofit commitment, financial readiness, and a belief in art as a pathway toward emotional restoration.
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Principal and Founder
Uchenna
Survivorship · Art · Nonprofit leadership
A five-year pancreatic cancer survivor, Uchenna is the driving force behind the Mabazza Foundation and the lived experience at the center of its mission.
A career committed to nonprofit work shaped a belief that recovery should extend beyond treatment. Through art, culture, exhibitions, and community-centered programming, Uchenna works to create spaces where survivors and their loved ones feel seen, strengthened, and connected.
“Survival became a responsibility to build something that could serve others.”
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Co-Founder
Uno
Veteran service · Community · Resilience
A former Navy veteran, Uno co-founded the Mabazza Foundation with a steady commitment to people navigating cancer, recovery, and the profound changes illness can bring to a family.
His understanding of service and perseverance helps anchor the Foundation’s community-focused work. Uno contributes a calm, practical presence and a conviction that support should be dependable, respectful, and grounded in real human connection.
Service is not a slogan. It is the decision to remain present.
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Director of Financial Readiness
Charles
Financial readiness · Stability · Growth
Charles helps ensure that the Foundation’s ambitions are matched by responsible planning, financial discipline, and a structure capable of sustaining its work.
His financial management experience supports the Foundation’s ability to steward contributions carefully, strengthen programs, and prepare for thoughtful growth without losing sight of the people and communities the organization exists to serve.
Compassion creates the vision. Stewardship gives it endurance.
The mission is personal. The responsibility is shared.
Art · Survivorship · Dignity · CommunityWhat guides our leadership
A foundation should feel human before it feels institutional.
These principles shape the decisions we make, the partnerships we pursue, and the experiences we create.
Protect dignity
Care should never reduce a person to a diagnosis, hardship, or moment of vulnerability.
Use resources well
Every contribution should strengthen the mission with transparency, intention, and practical value.
Build connection
Art becomes most powerful when it opens a door to conversation, belonging, and shared care.
Join the work
Help us turn lived experience into lasting support.
Every gift and partnership helps create healing-centered art experiences, strengthen community programs, and place beauty where people are recovering, waiting, remembering, and beginning again.