Speaking
Speaking at a UN General Assembly Side Event on Mental Health (Sept 2023) - Photo Credit: Ryan Rose |
Selected Advocacy & Theology Speaking Engagements (2014 - 2024)
- July 2024 - Forum Hour Teacher “African Women Theologians" (Week 1: Introduction, Week 2: Theology and Theologians, Week 3: Application) - St James Episcopal Church, Lancaster, PA
- September 2023 - Panelist UN General Assembly Side Event “Responding to the Mental Health Epidemic: Local Heroes in Mental Health" - Aspen Global Innovators Group, New York
- September 2022 - Panelist 6th Annual Diversity in Medicine Conference. “Careers in Mental Health Panel” - Patients R Waiting, Lancaster, PA
- March 2020 - Panelist “Africa and_” (put on hold due to onset of covid) - London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Africa Summit, London, UK
Panelist - UN General Assembly, New York |
- September 2018
- Panelist “Time to Act on Global Mental Health: Building Momentum on Mental Health in the SDG Era,” - UN General Assembly Headquarters, New York
- In conversation with Elisha London, UN General Assembly Side Event “Access & Inclusion for Global Mental Health” https://youtu.be/xt_Yn-qwD60 - Social Good Summit, New York
Concordia Summit - New York, September 2018 (more images) |
- September 2017 - Mainstage Speaker Global Stories of Women and Girls, https://youtu.be/8q0AhIgRadE. - The MOTH, New York
- August 2017 - Akili ni Mali (Mind is Wealth) Storytelling Tour - Six States across Nigeria
- June 2017 - Mainstage Speaker Rising Above Mental Health Challenges and Stigma, https://youtu.be/h7ln6oS9gug - TEDxKilimani, Nairobi
- March - June 2017 - Self Organized Akili ni Mali (Mind is Wealth) Storytelling Tour Kenya (Had 11 storytelling sessions in various Kenyan cities)
- February 2017 - Mainstage Speaker Why I speak up about living with epilepsy - TED Global Search, Nairobi
- Nov 2016 - Mainstage Speaker In a Heartbeat: A Moth Global Community Showcase - The MOTH, Washington D.C
- October 2016 - Panelist Engagement Unusual - New Media, Citizens and Governance Conference - Abuja, Nigeria
- June 2016 (U.S Speaking Tour)
- Panelist Mental Health America Annual Conference - Virginia
- Main Speaker Pollination Project Salon - Bay Area
- In Conversation with Prof Elyn Saks - University of Southern California
- Mainstage Speaker Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health - Aspen, Colorado
With Prof Elyn Saks at University of Southern California |
- Oct 2015 - Speaker Dignity in Mental Health - 2nd Mental Health and Well-Being Conference of Ghana - Accra, Ghana
- Nov 2014 - Beijing +20 at African Union - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia