MHomentum – Mental Health Moving Forward

Yemi Penn, Speaker | Researcher | Engineer | Author | Filmmaker

Yemi Penn is a fearless businesswoman and thought leader on creating your own memo, meaning ‘she’ gets to write the script of her life and encourages others to do the same. An engineer by profession and entrepreneur by passion having run 3 successful businesses in the past. She is now researching the alchemy of transmuting pain to power with a strong desire to learn new ways of being whilst challenging the status quo. Yemi invites the collective to ignite their rebellious curiosity in all aspects of their life, sharing the tools to do just that. More recently Yemi has added documentary producer to her repertoire as she shifts her core life’s purpose to raising the vibration of acknowledging and healing our individual and therefore collective trauma, something individuals, communities and organisations alike have experienced over the past couple of years.

Azure Antoinette

A commissioned poet, actress, TED Speaker, GRAMMY™ Considered recording artist, entrepreneur, and DEI thought leader and corporate advisor. Named the "Maya Angelou of the millennial generation," in the highly acclaimed Forbes Most Powerful Women in the World Issue.

Azure Antoinette is a 13-year survivor of Multiple Sclerosis and has a strong passion for patient advocacy and living well with MS. Amongst her many commitments she has previously served as ambassador and/or spokesperson for Clean & Clear, The GAP, and Beats by Dr. Dre, among others, and commissioned to write for the Girl Scouts of America, Johnson & Johnson, California Arts Council, American Cancer Society's benefit Art 4 Life, The Documentary Group, and many more.

Andrew J. Greenshaw PhD, Professor & Associate Chair of Psychiatry

University of Alberta Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, trained in Europe and Canada. Fellow of the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP), as President from 2000-2002, and the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP), Andy served as University of Alberta Associate Vice President (Research) and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute of Neuroscience Mental Health & Addiction. Andy is currently the Board Chair of Mental Health Research Canada and the Board Chair for Our House Addiction Recovery Centre. Andy engages in a broad set of research ranging from neuroscience to policy in mental health, with interests in AI and machine learning applications and e-health. As a founding member of the University of Alberta computational psychiatry group, working closely with members of the Alberta machine intelligence institute, Andy also serves as Scientific Director for the APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health and is a member of the Global Governance Council of eMHIC and an Oversees Director for the Kangning/Wenzhou/MU International Academician Work Station in Wenzhou.