Thriving Thursdays: Mental Health Advocacy
Thu, Jun 10
|Zoom and Facebook Live
Join this discussion as we highlight a grassroots mental health program in Zimbabwe that is addressing the mental health needs of their community.
Time & Location
Jun 10, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Zoom and Facebook Live
Guests
About the Event
Join this powerful discussion as Dr. Jackman sits down with U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, Artist and Creative Entrepreneur, and Chief of Creativity & Culture at Maoko Project.
The program will also be live streamed on InnoPsych's Facebook page.
Bios:
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is a Zimbabwean-American poet, performance artist, storyteller, and educator with an international reach and a transnational lens. Her debut poetry collection, Soul Psalms (She Writes Press), was published in April 2016, and hailed by David Updike as “a fearless female voice … tempered with optimism and healing possibilities of love.” Most recently she has been featured on GBH’s “Suitcase Stories” and “ Growing Up Black Part 2 “, and on “ Memoirs of a Black Girl” as Wardrobe Stylist which is the opening film for the Roxbury International Film Festival June 17, 2021. U-Meleni is an advisory board member for Write On the Dot and a member of the New…