Cici works as an Assistant Psychologist in adult acute care with the National Health Service (NHS) in England. She earned an MSc in Child Development from University College London, and her thesis focused on school-based interventions and teachers' mental health and wellbeing. She also completed an MSc in Global Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and King's College London, where her dissertation was on co-production in research on psychosis. Her scoping review contributed to the initial stages of the SUCCEED program at LSHTM, which aims to co-produce and evaluate multi-disciplinary approaches to psychosis in four African countries. Before her graduate studies, she completed her bachelor's degree from New York University, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.