Three outcomes, with mental health as the lens on all of them: children who can learn and participate, adults who can rebuild and re-enter education, work and community life, and people who stay well along the way.
Exclusion is rarely a single event. It builds across a life, from a misread child to an excluded young person to an adult carrying the cost.
My work aims to interrupt that pattern at every stage.
I focus on whether neurodivergent children can learn, engage and benefit fully, not simply whether they are enrolled.
I serve as a resource person in trainings for teachers and parents, helping them recognise learning differences, understand them in cultural context, and respond with practical adjustments rather than punishment or shame.
Exclusion in school does not only come from adults. We use storytelling to deliver empathy-based training in primary and secondary schools, teaching pupils what dyslexia is and how to recognise it in their classmates.
The aim is simple: reduce the exclusion and bullying that students with dyslexia face, and make classmates part of the support around them.
I advise non-profits and educational institutions on learning difference, and bring the question to education convenings such as Bett: what would mainstream programmes need to change for neurodivergent learners to participate and achieve?
One Word Africa Foundation is developing an assistive technology hub to support focus, learning and productivity. Technology lets us reach far more learners than one-to-one support ever could.
Many adults in Nigeria grew up with learning differences that were never recognised. By adulthood, the barrier to work and further education is often no longer only practical. It is also psychological: years of being told they were failing shape what they believe is possible. My work focuses on that foundation: healing, rebuilding confidence and agency, and finding a way back into education, work and community life.
A psychosocial support group for adults living with dyslexia, many of whom grew up without recognition. Often the first space where they understand their own learning difference, make sense of their past, and begin to plan their next steps.
Sessions are now opening to people who want to understand dyslexia so they can better support family members, while the group stays centred on adults with lived experience.
On this World Bank Youth Innovation Fund–supported jobs initiative, I designed the psychosocial and wellbeing component of the curriculum, drawing on WHO frameworks. It works across literacy and language barriers, avoids retraumatising participants, and includes an escalation protocol for women needing more intensive support.
The principle: livelihood skills take root when people have the psychological footing to use them.
I advise employers and teams on making workplaces accessible to neurodivergent people, from reasonable adjustments to the design of training and shared spaces.
I am building a working understanding of how development finance moves, including through a session with finance actors at the Institute of Directors, so inclusion and psychosocial support can be built into investment in education, social protection and human capital, not added afterwards.
My clinical training spans psychiatric, hospital, educational and community settings.
Trained at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, and the Department of Psychiatry at the National Hospital, Abuja. Worked as a special educator supporting children with autism and related disabilities, and now shadow consultant clinical psychologists in oncology at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
As Head of Operations at Serenity Nigeria, I led wellness programmes for children and older adults and worked with partners to bring mental health support to low-income and disability communities. I have also been a wellbeing focal point in support groups on sensitive health experiences such as women's reproductive health.
An inclusion lens on wellbeing work itself: sessions and spaces where people can take part in more than one way, through creative expression, flexible participation, and environments that do not overwhelm.
ONE Campaign UK Ambassador, representing young people at international convenings and supporting the Born to Live child survival campaign. A youth voice with the Nigerian Government on education, and previously community engagement in the office of the Honourable Minister of Tourism.
Film, stage play and personal stories help communities see what neurodiversity looks like in the lives around them.
Coming in 2027: MAKE ROOM. A public campaign ending in a live dramatisation that brings decision-makers into the room to commit to action.
For teachers, parents, pupils, health workers, youth workers and employers, plus programme advisory, design and development for emerging neurodiversity organisations.
Through the Africa Dyslexia Data Initiative, One Word Africa Foundation will systematically document outcomes, because there is no policy influence without data.
As a Chevening Sustainability Ambassador, I worked with engineers and farmers on disaster response, contributing a proposal to use satellite radio for psychoeducation after disasters such as tsunamis.
Often it means adjusting the ones you already run. I help organisations build inclusion and psychosocial support into education, health, youth and livelihoods programmes, including:
Sometimes the change is small and immediate.
I advised on font, colour and braille-friendliness for a reproductive health game, so it would work for neurodivergent and visually impaired players.
For a workplace training, I suggested fidget tools on the tables, a designated sensory-safe space, and an opening announcement that participants could step out whenever they needed to.
Whether you are designing a programme, shaping policy or planning an event, I would be glad to hear what you are working on.