Speakers & Guests
Mental Wealth Festival 2026
This year’s Mental Wealth Festival runs from 7 – 10 October. Hosted by City Lit in partnership with Beyond Words, Royal Ballet and Opera, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Age UK amongst others, it will offer events, including in person and online workshops, talks, discussions, exhibitions, and other activities.
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With a music career spanning 25 years, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has achieved five Top 10 albums and eight Top 10 singles, including Murder on the Dancefloor. Following the song’s resurgence after its appearance in Saltburn, Sophie released her latest album, Perimenopop, which entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 5, becoming her sixth Top 10 album. Sophie also hosts the popular podcast Spinning Plates, where she talks to working mothers from a range of backgrounds about balancing careers, family life and everything in between.
City Lit Fellow Paul Farmer became CEO of charity Age UK in October 2022. He was previously Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales. Paul is Chair of the NHS England Independent Oversight & Advisory Group which brings together health and care leaders and experts to oversee the current mental health long term plan for the NHS in England. Paul Farmer has been a supporter of City Lit and a regular speaker at the Mental Wealth Festival for many years.
Ian Tucknott is a educator, creative coach, cultural theorist, poet, curator, and trainee art psychotherapist with 18 years of experience in teaching and leadership within contemporary arts education. A passionate advocate for the mental health benefits of creativity and cultural engagement, Ian champions the life-changing power of the arts. He is also the co-curator of the Mental Wealth Festival.
Jonathan Kemp, Viscount Rochdale, is an author, entrepreneur and mental health advocate. After discovering that bipolar disorder, depression and dyslexia had shaped much of his life, he dedicated himself to raising awareness of cognitive and mental health challenges. A former law enforcement official, TEDx speaker and recipient of the British Dyslexia Association's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Jonathan has worked with organisations and educational institutions to support people facing similar challenges. In 2026, he embarked on a 4,200-kilometre walk across the UK and Ireland to raise funds for four mental health charities.
Rob Stephenson is a DJ, TEDx speaker and wellbeing practitioner on a mission to help people use music with intention — to manage stress, sleep better, and perform at their best. He is the creator of MITA (Music Is the Answer), a platform combining original music, voice-guided listening and neuroscience to help people shift how they think and feel. His book, Music Is the Answer: Practical Ways to Manage Stress, Sleep Better, and Live Brighter, is published by Wiley in August 2026. Rob is also the founder of Wellbeing Foundations, a behaviour-change framework and card deck built around six dimensions of wellbeing and the small, intentional daily habits that sustain them, and performs as a DJ under the name Robbie J.
Becksy is a Poet, performer and creative producer whose practice explores identity, culture, connection and the complexities of the human experience. Alongside her artistic practice, Becksy is an accomplished finance professional, bringing strategic, commercial and financial expertise to the creative sector. Founder of Bedroom Poetry, she has performed nationally and delivered poetry workshops and creative programmes across diverse communities. Her work sits at the intersection of art, culture and community, creating ambitious, meaningful and sustainable projects that amplify voices, foster connection and inspire social impact.
Namalee Bolle is a London based transpersonal transcultural integrative psychotherapist, multidisciplinary artist and Guardian award winning writer. She is British born of Sri-Lankan and Dutch heritage and her work explores themes of multicultural identity, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic thriving. She has been published in The London Evening Standard, Vogue and Therapy In Colour: Anti-Racist and Intercultural approaches by Therapists Of Colour (JKP, 2023). Her first book 'The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing: Navigating Family + Identity + Healing' (JKP, 2026) came out this year and has received widespread praise from the mixed + multiracial community.
Mark is the Policy Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, an independent Westminster-based think tank, aiming to address the challenges facing so many men and boys in the UK. He has an OBE and honorary doctorate for his work in this area. He is also the chair of a domestic abuse charity for male victims (ManKind Initiative) and a co-founding trustee of the Association of Male Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Richard Duggins is a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Associate Medical Director for Leadership and Culture in an NHS Foundation Trust. He leads a national award-winning staff wellbeing service in the North of England and is also an executive coach, author and podcast host, whose work focusses on burnout, workplace culture, leadership and how we can all thrive in a stressful workplace.
Jess Baker is a Chartered Business Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, speaker and co-author of The Super-Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People. She is also co-founder of Emplify, a movement helping good people to have more power. Her work challenges how we think about empathy in leadership and explores how we can create systems that better recognise its power. Jess speaks at conferences and festivals, delivers webinars and workshops, and is a regular commentator across print media, radio, podcasts and TV on workplace wellbeing.
Sir Norman Lamb is a leading mental health campaigner and former Minister of State for Care and Support. He served as Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019 and chaired South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust from 2019 to 2025. A longstanding advocate for improving mental health care and tackling stigma, he was awarded a knighthood in 2019 for services to mental health. His latest book, Be More Human, explores how mental health services can be transformed through more compassionate, community-centred approaches.
Nancy McCrum is an emerging multidisciplinary artist with a focus on printmaking and ceramics. Her work explores inner worlds and her own lived experience with bipolar disorder type 2. Nancy is running a free workshop based on her recent work, which reimagines brain scans as an opportunity for self-expression. Drop in to the Mental Wealth arts festival on 10th October to join. Her installation is also on display as part of the Tell Me More exhibition
Benjamin is a hip hop artist, poet and arts psychotherapist whose creative and therapeutic workshops explore the power of language, lyrics, rhyme, rhythm and human connection. Drawing on his experience as a musician, artist and therapist, he creates accessible and engaging experiences that highlight the expressive, artistic and mental health benefits of creative spoken word and performance. Based in London, Benjamin works in private practice and with mental health charities.
Rachel Kelly is a Sunday Times bestselling author, mental health advocate and wellbeing speaker. Her latest book, The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less, was named one of the Daily Mail’s Books of the Year. An ambassador for SANE, The Big Give and Rethink Mental Illness, she is also an affiliate of King’s College London’s Psychiatry Department. Rachel regularly delivers wellbeing workshops for parents and pupils and is a leading voice on adolescent mental health and resilience.
Garth MacAnally has spent the last 17 years working with Employee Assistance Programmes with a wide experience of the sector, EAP Call Handler, Account Management, Business Development, Staff & Management Training and Senior EAP Consultant.
His inroad into mental health was as a teacher, as an Industrial Therapist working for the NHS, within adult mental health services. Garth produces and delivers training aimed at driving positive change, he is passionate about reducing stigma surrounding all things mental health and helping organisations to support and train their staff in supporting themselves and others with their Mental Wellbeing.
Rod Vincent is a Chartered Psychologist, co-author of The Super-Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People, musician and co-founder of Emplify, a movement helping good people to have more power. As a business psychologist, Rod founded Human Qualities, a global consultancy supporting leaders and organisations worldwide. He has worked with leaders in forty-one countries, and brings together psychology, storytelling and creativity in his work. His poems and stories have been published in literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Stand and The Rialto. He also writes lyrics and plays bass as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent.
George is a professional filmmaker and founder of TheTinMen, one of the world’s largest online communities on men and boy’s issues; spanning everything from male suicide, men's health, boys education, domestic abuse, sexual violence, homelessness, drug addiction, incarceration, fatherlessness, mental health, loneliness, incels, sexual and reproductive health, misandry, global issues, and many others. His work has been featured on global platforms, podcasts and festivals such as Modern Wisdom (x3), BBC Radio 4, LBC, the NHS, ManTalks, the University of the Arts, Dr Karan Explores, The Problem With, ADH TV, and BrainBar and Lost Village Festivals, and now reaches millions of people worldwide, every month.
Lucy joined SignHealth in September 2022 with over 25 years’ marketing, engagement and fundraising experience. She has worked for a wide range of causes including disability, animal welfare and international development. Lucy is a deaf BSL user, so brings lived experience as well as professional expertise.
Prior to becoming Chief Executive, Lucy was Director of Engagement where she had strategic responsibility for fundraising, business development, communications, campaigns, policy and public affairs at SignHealth. This involved engaging with key audiences to end barriers to health for deaf people and to generate income from various sources.
Lisa Britton is a writer for Evie Magazine and a contributor to publications, including the LA Times and Newsweek. A passionate advocate for boys, men, and fathers, she was born in Nova Scotia as the youngest of five children. Her work in Washington D.C. has earned attention from members of Congress, presidential candidates, a First Lady, and a President of the United States.
Established in 2024, Loose Parts is an 8 person art collective founded on the principles of experimental, non-hierarchical, process-led creativity. Spanning sculpture, film, sound, photography, textiles, painting and drawing, Loose Parts serves as a space of trust and support, as well as an open dialogue between individual and collaborative practices.
Rich is a performer and poet based in south london. His relationship with poetry has been life long and often used as a means to relay his experiences with personal mental health struggles and to act as a navigational tool for such. He has headlined across the country and is the founder and host of popular spoken word night
Alice is a slam-winning performance poet in London. She has headlined everywhere from Somerset House to the Divine Fringe, and her work has been published by WriteLondon, Crunch and Edition. On a personal note, Alice suffers with severe mental health difficulties and re-found her love of poetry whilst sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Colin is a poet and musician based in South London. He writes poems on a variety of topics from greasy spoon cafes to the tyranny of the endoskeleton and the absurdity of the everyday. Poetry has provided a means of working through a number of tumultuous experiences in a largely constructive fashion. He co-runs poetry platform POW! Play On Words with Dr Lee Campbell.
Elena Sirett (they/them) is a folk-punk musician, poet, events planner and Attention Seekers founder. Elena is always unapologetically honest, mentally ill, neurodivergent and queer in everything they do. As a solo-musician Elena has supported folk-punk legends (Apes of the State and Cheap Dirty Horse amongst others) and has recently released an EP titled Doubt That Feeds. Their one person show Maenad (a musical-myth-mono-drama about BPD diagnosis) was performed at Camden Fringe (2023) and A Pinch of Vaults Festival (2024).
Mark Hopkinson has dedicated over 25 years of his career to teaching and working at City Lit. He is the first Deaf person to hold the position of Head of the Centre for Deaf Education at City Lit. With 35 years of experience as a British Sign Language (BSL) teacher, Mark has taught and assessed all levels of BSL—from Introductory to Level 6—and is a qualified Internal Verifier. He also provides consultancy and guidance to BSL tutors at other colleges.
Mark has lectured on the City Lit/London Metropolitan University ‘Deaf Studies’ degree programme and has coordinated numerous training initiatives for external organisations across London. He currently serves as Chair of Deafinitely Theatre and is a board member of Signature, the UK’s leading awarding body for Deaf communication qualifications.
Jon is an award-winning social impact innovator, and the co-founder of both creative agency Byte Entertainment and lived-experience not-for-profit, Speakers Collective. A leading mental health campaigner and public speaker, Jon talks openly about being sectioned and losing his father to suicide as a teenager.
He has worked on mental health campaigns with The Royal Foundation and currently developing innovative suicide prevention resources for NHS England. Jon is also a trustee for Let’s Talk About Loss, a charity supporting young people who have been bereaved.
Dom Stichbury is a singer, choral director, composer & group singing advocate. He is passionate about creating singing communities and curating repertoire that encourages emotional expression and community building. He is founder of lower voice troupes Chaps Choir & Bellow Fellows, groups that encourage more men to get singing.
Vivien Ellis is a Grammy-nominated early music singer and community musician leading high-quality social and inclusive singing events for wellbeing. Vivien developed a new model of training in arts and health for General Practitioners, and is currently undertaking an MA in Music at the University of York focused on her embodied practice with people, music and heritage. Vivien works with Mental Fight Club, a charity based in Southwark, leading the Dragon Café Singers. This weekly singing group supports wellbeing through singing and songwriting, and recently released 'In This Circle is My Heart', an album of collaboratively-written original songs, on Spotify.
Vivien is leading a number of participatory events in the Bloomsbury Festival this year, including 'Ballad Walks of Dickens and Seven Dials', and 'Songs and Ballads - a singing showcase' with local choirs.
Chaps Choir is a large male singing gang from London; say goodbye to the male voice choir most would recognise. The group has been sharing its joy-inducing, heart-string pulling repertoire to audiences since 2013. Their voices have filled the Royal Festival Hall, The Union Chapel & other major London venues. The group has slowly built a name through its urbane entertaining presentation and unexpected repertoire choices. They've performed live on Saturday night prime time TV, recorded at Abbey Road, been the subject of articles, news pieces & podcasts exploring men’s singing & male community, and raised money for mental healthy charities.
Rachel Morris is Co-Founder of Motion Learning, a professional coaching organisation supporting leaders, managers, and individuals to grow in confidence, impact, and effectiveness at work. Her coaching is values-driven, tailored, and grounded in deep experience and insight.
She is also Co-Founder of Coach Community, a not-for-profit organisation making coaching more accessible to those who may not otherwise have access, while also supporting the development and confidence of emerging coaches. A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation,
Rachel is the author of Working Mother: Simple coaching strategies for success at work and at home, and a member of both the British Psychological Society and the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists. She regularly speaks on topics including equity, mental health, and leadership at events and has appeared on platforms such as the Leading Women in Tech, Limitless Lives, and World of Work podcasts.
Dr Zoe Schaedel is an NHS GP and specialist in menopause, sleep medicine, and sexual health. She is known for her evidence-based yet highly practical approach, delivering engaging talks that help organisations improve employee wellbeing, resilience, and performance. A registered British Menopause Society Menopause Specialist and member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council, Zoe has extensive experience lecturing on topics including menopause, sleep, and preventative health.
Her expertise has been featured widely in the media, including Channel 5’s Women’s Health: Breaking the Taboos, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The Independent, Grazia, Daily Expressand Good Housekeeping.
Dr. Olivia Hum is an NHS GP and GP Partner with two decades of clinical experience. She specialises in menopause, hormonal health, and contraception, and is recognised as a British Menopause Society (BMS) Menopause Specialist and member of the BMS Medical Advisory Council.
As an engaging and relatable speaker, Olivia is skilled at translating complex health topics into clear, engaging insights that empower audiences to make informed decisions. Her focus is on improving understanding of hormonal health and supporting organisations to foster healthier, more productive workplaces.
Goldie is a three-time Olympian, Olympic bronze medallist and British Record holder in the javelin. Having retired from professional sport in 2016, Goldie completed a Sporting Directorship Masters and wrote a thesis on the ’Significant factors affecting athlete transition to alternative careers.’ Her own career transition has led her to founding property investment and development companies. She is an executive coach whilst also having Board roles with UK Athletics and is a Trustee of a youth athletics charity. Learning new skills, personal development and golf are big interests as well as trying to inspire others to follow their passions.
Julia’s background is in business psychology, coaching and psychotherapy. Focused on her career, she was director of a psychology consultancy by 30 and subsequently a partner in an international management consultancy, training as a psychotherapist alongside the day job. Then illness struck. Twice.
After treatment, determined not to work so hard, she attended art college. There followed two parallel careers – her psychology-related work and her creative life as a 3d artist and fiction author. She is now a commissioned artist for Mortal and Strong, a charity using art and narrative to interpret the stories of those with life-changing conditions. Her third psychological suspense novel was published this year.
Lenka Novakova is a deaf advisor specialising in deaf mental health services. She advocates for culturally and linguistically competent care, working to ensure that deaf service users and professionals are meaningfully included across all areas of healthcare. Her work centres on improving access, raising standards through the Accessible Information Standards, and empowering the Deaf community through informed, equitable practices.
Deidre Kashdan is a contemporary artist based in Kent.Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach which includes photography, collage, printmaking and performance, Deirdre has undertaken numerous artistic projects which place an emphasis upon conversation, storytelling and participation.Emerging from her own life experience - touched by suicide and severe mental illness - The Missing Project is Deidre’s current and most important work to date.
The Missing Project brings together the voices and images of more than 200 women whose lives have been indelibly marked by the mental illness or addiction of someone they love. These women, and the stories they carry, are often missing from public discourse, erased by stigma, shame, or the silence imposed by institutions that fail to care. This is a space for truth, and for healing from pain, guilt, and endurance.
Dr Judith Mohring is a psychiatrist, leadership coach and founder of The Natural Psychiatrist and ADHDEd. With 25 years of experience spanning clinical practice, education and organisational wellbeing, she works with leading global organisations including Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Google and PwC. A recognised expert in ADHD, she contributes to national treatment guidelines, lectures in organisational psychiatry, and delivers specialist training, coaching and wellbeing programmes that help individuals and organisations improve performance, resilience and understanding of neurodiversity at work.
Keith Clapson is a ceramic artist and Trustee at the Bethlem Hospital Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit (ADRU), where he was an inpatient for four months in 2017.
Drawing on his lived experience, Keith now mentors patients and teaches ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) through art at ADRU. He also regularly shares his journey from ‘patient to artist’ in talks for visiting students and trainee doctors at Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
Keith’s experience has also led him to work with students at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and the Maudsley Hospital, sharing his insights and expertise to help inform improvements to post-discharge support and care for patients.
Dr Hugh SelsickstudiedPhysiology andMedicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, before specialisingin Adultand AddictionsPsychiatry at the Maudsley and the North London training schemes. He established the Insomnia andBehavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine/University College London Hospitals,the first of its kind in the UK, and is the lead clinician there. He also worked as a consultant in the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He founded the Sleep Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is past president of the Sleep Medicine Section at the Royal Society of Medicine.
He is co-author of Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine (2015) and editor of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatric Patients: A Practical Guide (2018). He has also contributed to numerous textbooks on sleep and psychiatry.
Edward teaches music history and theory at City lit. His specialism is early music (medieval, renaissance and baroque) and he completed a PhD in historical musicology at King's College London (2013) on the performance of medieval music.
Outside of teaching, Edward is a regular contributor to Gramophone magazine and has lectured for Dartington International Summer School, London's Southbank Centre and The British Library. He has also worked as a researcher for BBC Proms and written for the journal Early Music (OUP).
His essays are published in: The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Historical Performance in Music, (Cambridge University Press); The Montpellier Codex: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 16 (Boydell Press); Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Ashgate 2018); and 30-Second Classical Music (Ivy Press)
Hettie Judah is a writer, curator and one of the UK’s leading art critics. A regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, she is the curator of the acclaimed exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood and author of several books on art, culture and parenthood. Hettie is a frequent broadcaster and speaker, and is widely recognised for her work championing artists, exploring creativity, and advocating for greater inclusion of artist parents in the art world.
Dr Sharon Taylor is a London-based ceramic artist whose work explores repair, resilience and the human condition. Originally trained as a doctor, paediatrician and child psychiatrist, she brings a unique perspective to her artistic practice, drawing on more than 20 years of experience working with children, young people and families. Since transitioning to full-time ceramics in 2021, she has developed her acclaimed Heart Series, using sculptural porcelain forms to explore themes of fracture, healing and renewal. In 2026, she was awarded the Ceramics Prize at the Lowes Dickinson Open Exhibition.
Marice Cumber is a British artist whose work explores identity, belonging and the complexities of lived experience. Working primarily in ceramics, she draws on personal reflections, diaries and notebooks to create pieces that explore mental health, healing and recovery. Her recent work examines themes of Jewish identity, family connections, intergenerational trauma and what it means to exist outside the mainstream. Marice’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.
Dr Rebecca Owens is the Head of the School of Psychology and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Sunderland and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Becci developed the world's first taught module on Male Psychology, advocating the need to take a fully inclusive and holistic view of male psychology in order to understand the issues faced by men and boys and how to address them. This involves challenging superficial approaches to understanding men and boys and incorporating an ultimate perspective, drawing on cross cultural perspectives to inform our understanding.
Pedro is a ceramic artist, arts educator and arts psychotherapist with over twenty years of experience supporting mental health through creative practice. Pedro draws on his own artistic practice in ceramic art to encourage individuals to engage and experience the wellbeing benefits of claywork and creative play. Pedro has worked and delivered workshops with Kentish Town City Farm, Pheonix Autism Trust, and the London Permaculture Festival.
Mei Lock is a British-born Chinese textile artist based in London. Her practice draws on her family’s migration story: her parents arrived in Britain in the 1970s, working for relatives before opening their own Chinese take‑away. This backdrop informs her ongoing exploration of migration, identity, family dynamics and what it means to grow up Chinese in Britain. Narrative storytelling sits at the heart of her work, often using materials and aesthetics drawn from her family home and childhood.
Alice is a visual artist and writer. She uses her body and self-as-subject to explore personal themes of illness, loss, memory, psychological states and femininity. Although subjective, her work aims to communicate aspects of human experience that connect with a wider audience. She seeks an emotional, sometimes visceral response. Alice works in multi-media including printmaking, photography, drawing, painting and stitch.
Ian Gillman-Smith is a Registered Psychotherapist and Social Worker. He has worked in mental health for the last 36 years, across the NHS, local authorities and private practice. He currently works as an Expert Witness, Judicial Office Holder, Psychotherapist and Supervisor.Ian’s current interests revolve around transition, changing identity and how we construct narratives to articulate our perspectives on the world. City Lit has been fundamental to this continuing process, providing a space for Ian to explore and unfold his relationship with art and self-expression.
Clara is a Bolivian multidisciplinary artist based in London, working across mixed media and animation. After studying Architecture in Bolivia, she moved to the UK, completing a BA (Hons) in Illustration Animation and an MA in Animation at Kingston University. Having developed a visual metaphorical language, her practice is shaped by her experience of neurodiversity and mental health. Through colour and mark-making, she reinterprets reality, exploring inner worlds, emotional states, and fragmented memory. Working with materials such as oil pastels, gouache, acrylic, and watercolour, she experiments with the qualities of each medium to translate psychological experiences into visual form, inviting the viewer into an intimate and perceptual space.
The Triangle, founded by arts psychotherapists Hayley Martyn-Fisher, Charlotte Rogerson and Polly Sloan, are a therapeutic arts collective who develop projects and workshops at the intersection of wellbeing, creative arts and community practice. Their current project, The Dreaming Collective, grew from a shared fascination with the imagery, symbolism and significance of dreams. Through the creative arts, The Triangle offers a safe and generative space to explore the sometimes absurd, magical, mundane or frightening worlds encountered in our dreams. They invite participants to engage in individual and collective dream work as a source of creative inspiration, insight, meaning-making and human connection.
Dr Caspar Addyman is a developmental psychologist, writer and technologist. He has spent two decades studying how babies learn, with research on early cognition, language acquisition, infant time perception, sleep, music, and the developmental role of laughter. Formerly director of the InfantLab at Goldsmiths, University of London, he is currently an extraordinary lecturer at Stellenbosch University and Chief Insights Officer at the AI startup PlayTandem.com. His work includes the popular science book The Laughing Baby, collaborations like The Happy Song with Imogen Heap, and the Babies Laugh picture book series. Find out more at https://babies.lol .
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David is a 19-year-old from the Northwest of England. He is a member of the Fair Education Alliance Youth Steering Group and currently undertaking a degree apprenticeship programme in Technology Development. Throughout his academic journey, he has become increasingly aware of the disparities in educational quality across different regions and how these hurdles can restrict socioeconomic mobility. Having experienced the challenges of starting from a disadvantaged position, he is driven to make the path easier for young people to reach their potential, with the belief that no person should be limited by their background.
