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Azenaide Lowatiwiya

Associate Loan and Investment Officer

About Azenaide

Azenaide Lowatiwiya is a CEI’s 2024 Justice Fellow, working with the lending team. She previous served as CEI’s workforce solutions team’s program specialist for the Child Care Business Lab.

Originally from Angola, Lowatiwiya came to Maine three years ago from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she received a BA in public health from Monash University. In 2020, she was one of the first individuals to apply for the pilot cohort of CEI’s Child Care Business Lab to learn how to help five women, who immigrated to Lewiston from Angola, start a cooperative child care center. The co-op is scheduled to open in May. In her new role at CEI, Lowatiwiya will focus on growing additional child care options in Lewiston’s Tree Streets neighborhood, one of the state’s most diverse areas, with the densest population of children in the state. During recent listening sessions in the community, she confirmed the need for culturally appropriate, high quality, affordable child care that is responsive to around-the-clock work schedules. Lowatiwiya is pursuing an associate’s degree in business administration and management from Central Maine Community College.

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