Lucy Abeng

Activist, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Life mentor, Social entrepreneur

Lucy Abeng is a mental health advocate, passionate about raising awareness of mental health and advocating for better mental health policies in Africa. For this purpose, she founded and runs a non-profit, "Mental Health for Youth Initiative" in Nigeria. She is an art lover and explores the influence and link between art and mental health. She is also an academic researcher and a lecturer of economics at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria, with a keen interest in behavioural economics. She mentors young people that are passionate about making a change in their communities through the establishment of non-profit organisations. As a public speaker, she has appeared on several radio and podcast shows, discussing several ideas around mental health.

Raising awareness of mental health. Art. Mentoring young change-makers in achieving their dreams. Spreading life-changing ideas

Be kind to everyone you meet, you never know the internal battles they are going through. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Last year, I came across several TEDx videos and was amused by how the platform highlights local ideas in communities that have the potential to impact entirely different communities in unique ways. I was inspired to organise a TEDx to bring important and impactful ideas to the world, with the hope that sharing these ideas would impact my immediate community, and the world at large.

Salsa dance and roller skating.