This week in our continuing Women’s Herstory Month series, we’re in another new country--from southern Africa last week we’re landing in Scandinavia on our first trip to Norway via Sudan, Zambia, The Philippines, Netherlands, Ghana and South Africa--all places my guest this week has called home. Sarah Osman is a cognitive psychologist, global development specialist, and social entrepreneur with twenty years of experience across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, and shaped by a life lived across multiple continents, she has built her career at the intersection of applied behavioral science and international development, helping major organizations translate insights about human decision-making into programs that create lasting social change.

As the founder of Osman Advisory Services, Sarah has worked with international organizations such as the Council of Europe, World Vision, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union on some of the most complex behavioral challenges in global development.

In 2024, she founded Ela, a membership community for women of color building their own consulting practices. Ela is grounded in the conviction that structural inequity in the consulting sector cannot be solved by individual effort alone: it requires community, peer accountability, and the kind of behavioral design thinking that Sarah has spent two decades applying in the field. Ela members are already experiencing tangible transformation in how they position themselves and grow with confidence.

Sarah is currently building a new platform for Africa-focused professionals who want to harness the power of behavioral and consumer insights in their work and sector.

Currently based in Oslo, Sarah is a true ‘glocal’ citizen: Sudanese by heritage, Pan-African by spirit, European by dwelling, and wholly at home in the space between local realities and global systems.

Where to find Sarah and her resource offerings?
osmanadvisoryservices.com
Join the Ela Membership
Sign up to the Pattern Recognition Newsletter
On LinkedIn
On YouTube

What’s Sarah reading?
Credit Alert by Ayo Akinola
We Are Not Consumers by Louis Seeco

What’s Sarah listening to?
The Department Podcast

Other topics of interest:
Perspectives on Black Identity in Norway
Curious about “Delulu” thinking?
Manal Sayid of Sayid Consulting

Special Guest: Sarah Osman.

This week, though Black History Month in the Americas is winding down, here on the podcast we’re consistently aiming to learn, grow and inspire our sustained consciouness around #PanAfricanProgress and we’re deep diving with a son of the country that is at the foundation of liberation across the global Black Diaspora - Haiti.

Marc Alain Boucicault is a social entrepreneur and ecosystem builder with over 15 years of experience working in international development and entrepreneurship with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, at MIT and with grassroots organizations focused on youth empowerment and entrepreneurship. He is passionate about leveraging the power of entrepreneurship, technology and communication to reshape socioeconomic dynamics. As the founder of Banj, Haiti’s largest coworking space and entrepreneurship hub connecting various communities to promote innovation in Haiti and the Caribbean he also supports change-makers globally. Marc Alain extends this work in service on the board of the Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP) addressing access to higher education in Haiti. He is a Fulbright scholar, a social media influencer and a fellow podcaster.

Where to find Marc Alain?
On the Executive Talk Podcast
On [LinkedIn](linkedin.com/in/marcalainb)
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What’s Marc Alain watching?
Banj 4.0

Other topics of interest:
On Hispaniola and how the Haitian Revolution stirred colonialism
Haiti Tech Summit
Africa Tech Summit - Nairobi
On The Five Stakeholder Model
What’s GDP really all about?
The Assassination of Jovenel Moïse: What happened on July 7, 2021 in Haiti?
The IDB Case Study: Seeking a Recipe to Support Entrepreneurs in a Fragile Country: Banj's Approach through the Mobilization of the Innovation Ecosystem in Haiti
Haitians at Harvard
On Barbados' Inspriational Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley

Special Guest: Marc Alain Boucicault.

As the season of academic studies begins in many institutions across parts of the world, including New York City where I have spent many years working with charter schools to open their doors to children and families, it’s a flashback moment for my guest and me to the days when she was first granted a charter to begin her social enterpreneurship journey as a school leader and founder. Dr. Elaine Ruiz Lopez is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of the International Leadership Charter High School, a rigorous college prep charter high school in the Bronx, New York where over 95% of its scholars graduate within four years enrolling in the college of their choice. In 2024, she expanded her vision opening a middle school in 2024.

Having worked in the field of education since 1980, over ths course of her career she has held various leadership positions in public schools and universities. In 2017, she was one of the recipients of the Distinguished Women Award (Mujeres Destacadas) presented by El Diario, the largest Spanish daily newspaper organization in the country. In 2022 as one of 100 Bronx Power Women. In 2023 she received the Educator of Excellence Award from the Black Latinx Asian Charter Coalition (BLACC). She is a founding member of the Latino Charter Leaders Roundtable and its current Chair.
Her first book, The Fight for Equity in the Bronx: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities One Scholar at a Time was published last summer and stands as a testament to years of focusing her vision as a servant leader as well as the manifestation of generations of purpose driven living and adaptating to new shores, creating home in other lands.

Where to find Dr. Ruiz Lopez and the International Leadership Charter High School?
Buy her book @ here!
Saturday (and weekends), September 13th - October 12th, 2025 at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition as part of “the art of Nuyorican Soul: A Love Letter from the Diaspora to the Island” exhibition.
International Leadership Charter Schools
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What’s Elaine reading, watching and listening to?
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
My Grandmother’s Hands by Dr. Resmaa Menakem
Lupin on Netflix
CeCe Winans
Yolanda Adams

Other topics of interest:
About Historical Puerto Rico
On Immigrants and Migrants
The Bronx is Burning and other stories about struggle and settlement in The Bronx
What is the Jones Act?
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS
Find our more about charter schoos via the New York City Charter School Center

Special Guest: Elaine Ruiz Lopez.

This week on the podcast we’re flashing back to June 2020 when we first met Emmanual Agbeko Gamor while he was based in South Africa attending Wits Business School. Now glocal in his native Ghana and South Africa he continues to evolve on the personal and professional fronts. Widely known as Palmwine DJ, Emmanuel is a trailblazer in Ghana’s music scene, a digital professional, social entrepreneur, and music curator dedicated to preserving and celebrating African musical heritage. With over a decade of experience working remotely and collaboratively with local, regional, and multinational partners, he’s built a career that bridges the digital and physical worlds, creating impactful experiences through music, networking, and community building. As you’ll hear, this phase of E.A.Gamor is on the cusp of big moves in the coming year. #Listenandlearn more!

Where to find Emmanuel?
Palmwine DJ
On Glocal Citizens

What’s Emmanuel playing and listening to?
M3NSA
Kwan Pa Band
Ebo Taylor
Osibisa
Kyekyeku

Oher topics of interest:
What is Palm Wine?
On the roots of Palm-wine Music
Gome Drum
Jùjú Music
About EDM
On FutureCasting
About MTN and MTN Ghana
My iMali app

Special Guest: Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor.

This week’s conversation comes in two parts. Like it’s geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. After several years working in the education sector, Dr. Wes launched the program in November 2009 at Rosa Parks Elementary School, located in San Francisco's historic Fillmore District. J&D is a music integrated curriculum that utilizes jazz as a metaphor to bring democracy to life, enrich the study and teaching of history, government, civics and culture, and inspire youth to become active, positive contributors to their communities. He first proposed the curriculum as part of his undergraduate honors program at Stanford’s School of Education and later conducted research for his undergraduate honors thesis at Oxford University where he engaged and learned from music educators at both local elementary schools and world renowned secondary institutions. Now based in Sydney, Australia, J&D has traveled to countries all over the world and, in these times of global social transition, Dr. Wes anticipates continued opportunities to feature and further innovate using tools that will leave lasting impact on the ways that youth and educators approach building and living in their communities and beyond.

Where to find Wesley?
On LinkedIn
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube

Who’s Wesley listening to?
Joseph Solomon

Other topics of interest:
Activist Oakland, CA
Northern Beaches, Sydney Lifestyle
United States Studies Center
Crikey! or Kriky!
Flat White vs Latte
Geechi Taylor
Find Rachelle Farrell, Meshell N’Degeocello, on J&D
Ledisi
Christian McBride
Betty Carter + Ray Charles
Episode 47 featuring Wynton Marsalis
Jazz for Young People @ Lincoln Center
Check out the Chris Botti SF Show
About Robert, Bobby and Madison McFerrin

Special Guest: Wesley J. Watkins.

This week’s conversation comes in two parts. Like it’s geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. After several years working in the education sector, Dr. Wes launched the program in November 2009 at Rosa Parks Elementary School, located in San Francisco's historic Fillmore District. J&D is a music integrated curriculum that utilizes jazz as a metaphor to bring democracy to life, enrich the study and teaching of history, government, civics and culture, and inspire youth to become active, positive contributors to their communities. He first proposed the curriculum as part of his undergraduate honors program at Stanford’s School of Education and later conducted research for his undergraduate honors thesis at Oxford University where he engaged and learned from music educators at both local elementary schools and world renowned secondary institutions. Now based in Sydney, Australia, J&D has traveled to countries all over the world and, in these times of global social transition, Dr. Wes anticipates continued opportunities to feature and further innovate using tools that will leave lasting impact on the ways that youth and educators approach building and living in their communities and beyond.

Where to find Wesley?
On LinkedIn
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube

Who’s Wesley listening to?
Joseph Solomon

Other topics of interest:
Activist Oakland, CA
Northern Beaches, Sydney Lifestyle
United States Studies Center
Crikey! or Kriky!
Flat White vs Latte
Geechi Taylor
Find Rachelle Farrell, Meshell N’Degeocello, on J&D
Ledisi
Christian McBride
Betty Carter + Ray Charles
Episode 47 featuring Wynton Marsalis
Jazz for Young People @ Lincoln Center
Check out the Chris Botti SF Show
About Robert, Bobby and Madison McFerrin

Special Guest: Wesley J. Watkins.

This week on the podcast, our first guest, Cordie Aziz is back with fresh insights from her work and life changes since our first conversation. Cordie, now a mother of three is Founder and Executive Director of Enviornment360 an NGO turned social enterprise that has successfully executed sustainable waste management projects in urban and coastal communities in Greater Accra and Kumasi. Cordie’s achievements include creating of the first successful community plastic collection program in Accra; developing the first waste picker-run sorting center in West Africa; and successfully partnering with local and national agencies as the recycling coordinator for the city of Accra, to name a few. We recorded this conversation during the ramp up to their 10th anniversary celebration at their new headquarters. In this conversation, we catch up on how Cordie is designing her work-life balance with purpose, allowing her to continue to evolve as an entreprenuer while staying rooted in her new role as a working mother.

Where to find Cordie?
Check out the show notes from her first appearance.

Other topics of interest:
Jackson State University
GhScientific
About Australian Aid
What is Verra?

Special Guest: Cordie Aziz.

We’ve been coming together nearly every week for five years!! On this day in 2019, this two-part interview with my first guest launched the podcast. In celebration and commemoration, stay tuned for episodes throughout the year revisiting past guests and catching up “Where are they now?” style. This week it’s a flashback to the very beginning with our first guest, environmentalist and social entrepreneur, Cordie Aziz. It’s delighting that this conversation stands the test of time and is as relevant then as now. Check out the show notes for Cordie’s other episodes to find out more about her then. And come back next week to catch up on Cordie’s now.

Where to find Cordie?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On X

What’s Cordie reading?
Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer

Topics of interest:
On Dumsor
Kwasia!
Take a trip to Dodowa Market
What is waste picking?
About GIZ Ghana
What is PET?
A bit about the recycilng lifecycle of a plastic bottle

Special Guest: Cordie Aziz.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been learning more and more about the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme with guests from Egypt to Scotland to Nigeria with a range of business, health and well-being perspectives. This week we’re back in Nigeria with the women that started it all, Glocal Citizen, Adebisi Bright. Dr. Bisi Bright is an international award-winning scientist, social entrepreneur, health systems researcher, adjunct lecturer, consultant clinical pharmacist, and public health manager. She is 1st Vice Chairman and CEO of LiveWell Initiative LWI, a self-sustaining nonprofit healthcare social enterprise, which has impacted over two million Nigerians and thousands of Ghanaians with health literacy, improved overall health, and wellness.

She is the brain behind the Post-pandemic Womens' Empowerment Programme of Africa which is a Gilead-Sciences, Inc. USA-supported regional program empowering all women in Africa and visiting ten nations with a goal of empowering all the Women of Africa in the post-pandemic era and to equip them tools for mental health and resilience. When we last spoke with Bisi, it was during the pandemic and we got to know how LWI was doing it’s part to equip communities with necessary health supports. In this conversation you’ll learn about the impressive strides the Bisi and her colleagues have made in services and in innovation all while continuing to live well!

Where to find Bisi and more information about the PPWA program?
www.livewellng.org
On LinkedIn

What’s Bisi cooking?
Jollof rice
Ogbono soup

Other topics of interest:
Global Public Health University
Health Technology Assessment
About Value-based Healthcare
International Alliance of Patient’s Organizations
More about Block Chain technology in healthcare

Special Guest: Adebisi Bright.

The beautiful thing about life is that with care and attention time refines and gives rise to the amazement that is our daily experience. I met this week's guest nearly a decade ago, in the country she currently calls home, as we were both starting our work in the African edutainment industry and as she was making her way back home to Tanzania to do what she prepared for when getting her MBA and BS in International Business and Economics from Overton School of Business in the US--making a difference for African children. Tanzanian born and raised, Doreen Kessy is a Co-founder at STEM Girls Education (SGE), a social enterprise with a mission to help more girls in Africa become innovators. An education and women's champion at heart, Doreen holds the belief that empowering women and girls to drive change is essential in fostering a more sustainable and kinder world for all. Previously Chief Business Officer at Ubongo Learning, she was instrumental in growing the organisation as she led its expansion to 41 countries in Africa reaching over 30 million kids. She was named “Entrepreneur of the Year in Education” by Women In Africa Initiative (WIA), Winner of Next Billion EdTech Prize 2019, is also an Acumen Fellow, Future Elect Fellow, Global Shaper, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and Tedx speaker. Not only is the future bright, our present is brighter with social entreperneurs like Doreen making their mark in markets across Africa!

Where to find Doreen?
On Wikipedia
On LinkedIn
On Twitter

What’s Doreen listening to?
Brook Castillo’s The LIfe Coach School Podcast
How I Built This Podcast
Huberman Lab Podcast
The Mel Robbins Podcast
This American Life Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show
The Dairy Of A CEO Podcast

Other topics of interest:
About Njombe’s Iringa Region, Tanzania
Things to do in Rosebank, Gauteng
About Smile 4 Africa
Yo! Haibo!, Sawubona - Sikhona and other South African Expressions
The Life Coach School
What’s Doreen riding?
Microschools in action in Africa

We have another two part in depth conversation with a very dynamic Diasporan. Part 1 goes live the week of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. The genesis of the holiday has much to do with food--It was a harvest festival celebrated by America's first European immigrant settlers. So, my guest is our own celebration of food--food science and innovation. Born and raised in the US, now based in Accra, Dr. Wanida Lewis is the CEO and Co-founder of non-profit Crescendo Foods, Ghana’s first shared commercial kitchen space and culinary hub. She has over ten years’ experience leading programs, strategic partnerships, and economic evaluation initiatives throughout the African continent. Previously, she wasa Senior Economic Program Advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues. During her first stint living in Accra in 2018, she founded Young, Gifted, & Brown, LLC, a pipeline program supporting young Ghanaian women and entrepreneurs in STEM. A Food Science Fellowship Award Endowment in her name was established in 2013 to provide fellowship funding for underrepresented graduate students in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. Another fun fact about Wanida is that she's a certified yoga instructor and can be found working with Glocal Citizens guest, Nana Amoako-Anin at Bliss Yoga Accra training yogis in yin and restorative yoga.

Where to find Wanida?
Wanida's website
On LinkedIn
cresendogh.com
On Facebook
On Instagram
On Twitter

What's Wanida reading?
Terminal Romance: How to Find Love in Cyberspace by Niki Aguirre
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

What's Wanida watching?
Abbot Elementary
Atlanta
From Scratch

What's Wanida listening to?
J.ill Podcast
Africa Daily Podcast

Other topics of interest:
Theia Coffee House Accra
American Association for the Advancement of Science
US Foreign Service
German Marshall Fund
About Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Delta Sigma theta Sorority, Inc.
Faith Hunter
Arianna Elizabeth
The Pilates Studio Accra
Online Dating Sites, A History

Special Guest: Wanida Lewis.

We have another two part in-depth conversation with a very dynamic Diasporan. Part 1 goes live the week of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. The genesis of the holiday has much to do with food; it was a harvest festival celebrated by America's first European immigrant settlers. So, my guest is our own celebration of food--food science and innovation. Born and raised in the US, now based in Accra, Dr. Wanida Lewis is the CEO and Co-founder of non-profit Crescendo Foods, Ghana’s first shared commercial kitchen space and culinary hub. She has over ten years’ experience leading programs, strategic partnerships, and economic evaluation initiatives throughout the African continent. Previously, she wasa Senior Economic Program Advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues. During her first stint living in Accra in 2018, she founded Young, Gifted, & Brown, LLC, a pipeline program supporting young Ghanaian women and entrepreneurs in STEM. A Food Science Fellowship Award Endowment in her name was established in 2013 to provide fellowship funding for underrepresented graduate students in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. Another fun fact about Wanida is that she's a certified yoga instructor and can be found working with Glocal Citizens guest, Nana Amoako-Anin at Bliss Yoga Accra training yogis in yin and restorative yoga.

Where to find Wanida?
Wanida's website
On LinkedIn
crescendogh.com
On Facebook
On Instagram
On Twitter

What's Wanida reading?
Terminal Romance: How to Find Love in Cyberspace by Niki Aguirre
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

What's Wanida watching?
Abbot Elementary
Atlanta
From Scratch

What's Wanida listening to?
J.ill Podcast
Africa Daily Podcast

Other topics of interest:
Theia Coffee House Accra
American Association for the Advancement of Science
US Foreign Service
German Marshall Fund
About Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Delta Sigma theta Sorority, Inc.
Faith Hunter
Arianna Elizabeth
The Pilates Studio Accra
Online Dating Sites, A History

Special Guest: Wanida Lewis.

Where to find Tiambi?
www.tiambi.com
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What's Tiambi reading?
Will by Will Smith (Author), Mark Manson
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

What's Tiambi listening to?
The Science of Getting Rich Podcast
Dissect Podcast

Other topics of interest:
On Water Management in the Netherlands
EIT Climate-KIC ClimateLanuchpad
Mfoum, Central Region, Ghana
On Matrilineal Societies
On Design Thinking

Special Guest: Tiambi Simms.

Tune in and find out more about Nadhir's other areas of interest and knowledge such as sustainability, sustaintech, circular economy, transformative technology, phytotherapy and more.

Where to find Nadhir?
On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadhirdouma/]
On Twitter [https://twitter.com/nadhirus]

Other topics of interest:
About Sousse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousse]
Tunisia's Startup Act [https://www.insme.org/the-tunisian-startup-act/]
Benefits of Prickly Pear [https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/prickly-pear-cactus/faq-20057771#:~:text=Prickly%20pear%20cactus%20%E2%80%94%20or%20also,antiviral%20and%20anti%2Dinflammatory%20properties]
Benefits of Rosemary [https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266370#_noHeaderPrefixedContent]

Special Guest: Nadihir Douma.

Where to find Tina?
www.tinambachu.com
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
A Few Good Things on IG

What's Tina reading?
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

What's Tina listening to?
On Spotify

Other topics of interest:
The Black Innovation Program @ DMZ
Bamileke People of Cameroon
Kizomba

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Special Guest: Tina Mbachu Obodozie.

Where to find Bisi?
www.livewellng.org
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Instagram
On Facebook

What's Bisi watching?
Gone with the Wind

Other topics of interest:
University of Zimbabwe
What is Sadza?
West African College of Pharmacists
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
World Hepatitis Alliance
Shared Value Initiative
Global COVID-19 Vaccination Stats

Special Guest: Adebisi Bright.

Where to find Bisi?
www.livewellng.org
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Instagram
On Facebook

What's Bisi watching?
Gone with the Wind

Other topics of interest:
University of Zimbabwe
What is Sadza?
West African College of Pharmacists
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
World Hepatitis Alliance
Shared Value Initiative
Global COVID-19 Vaccination Stats

Special Guest: Adebisi Bright.

In his work as a lawyer, he has represented the student leaders of Tiananmen Square, victims of the Bosnian genocide, freed a man from death row, and helped free an innocent man serving life for murder as the fifteenth lawyer to take up the case. He is a recipient of the Brown Alumni Association’s highest honor, given to one graduate per year. A Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University. Jaykumar holds a JD and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA from Brown University.

I am sure this discussion will be plenty of food for thought and practice; I encourage you to read on, visit and get involved with this pioneering work!

Where to find Jaykumar:
www.ospfound.org
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Facbook

What's Jaykumar reading?
The Stoics and Marcus Aurelius
Joan Dideon
Ernest Hemingway
Sherwood Anderson
Tom Wolfe
Bruce Chatwin
Arundhati Roy

Other topics of interest:
XPRIZE Foundation
Dr. Robert Gallo
March of Dimes
University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology
The Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (I-AIM)
8 Limbs of Yoga
The Five Tibetan Rites

Special Guest: Jaykumar Menon.

Where to find Karishma?
www.karishmadesign.com
About Miraculous Me
On LinkedIn
On Facebook
On Instagram
on Twitter @karishmadesign

What’s Karishma reading?
The Artist's Way

Other topics of interest—
• Montagnard People, Vietnam
• Māori People, New Zealand
• Hong Kong Fashion Week
• Māori Language Apps
• London 07/07/2005

Special Guest: Karishma Singh Kelsey.

That's Māori for "hello." We're globetrotting across many oceans for this two part conversation taking us to New Zealand where we meet social entrepreneur, Karishma Singh Kelsey of Karishma Design. Her experiences, ambition and drive led her from her native South Africa to Europe then on to Asia into many fields related to fashion from the large corporate retail world to fashion journalism and consultancy services to founding and managing her own fashion label. Today, Karishma has nearly two decades of design, styling, visual merchandising, trend forecasting, business management, fashion buying, retail sales and fashion marketing accomplishments to her credit. Coupling her experience with a passion to enthuse, inspire and motivate young minds, in a creative, interactive educational environment, Karishma is also an educator, ethical, sustainable slow fashion advocate and researcher. Check out the links below and get to know @KarishmaDesign in vivid color!

Where to find Karishma?
www.karishmadesign.com
About Miraculous Me
On LinkedIn
On Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/karishmadesign]
On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/karishmadesign/?hl=en]
on Twitter @karishmadesign

What’s Karishma reading?
The Artist's Way

Other topics of interest—
• Montagnard People, Vietnam
• Māori People, New Zealand
• Hong Kong Fashion Week
• Māori Language Apps
• London 07/07/2005

Special Guest: Karishma Singh Kelsey.

This week we meet Founder and President of African Health Now, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo. AHN is a community-based organization that provides primary health care to women, children and families in Sub Saharan Africa. AHN was born out of a family crisis that opened her eyes the realities of the state of basic healthcare information and empowerment in African communities. While selecting models as the Bookings Editor for ESSENCE, Nana ’s father became ill back in Ghana. The support of the local community helped him get back on his feet and Nana was inspired to ensure communities across the continent received health care.

In the past 14 years, AHN has impacted more than 20,000 people with health fairs focused on awareness of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), chronic diseases and general health in Ghana and Nigeria. She has also become a serial entreprenuer with her new start-up www.fourthphasebox.co which will launch in December 2020. Fourth Phase is her answer to the challenges women face in the period after birth, the fourth trimester and she is partnering with women owned businesses to create the box that literally is a life saver for women that would otherwise fo without in Africa; for each Fourth Phase box purchased, a women in an AHN partner facility in Africa also receives a box. Nana describes herself as a social entreprenuer, a dynamic special events professional, a project management specialist, a foodie and world traveler. A Brooklyn-bred Ghanaian, Nana is now based in New Jersey where she and her husband are raising their daughter.

Where to find Nana and African Health Now and Fourth Phase?

• [African health Now](www.africanhealthnow.org)
• [Fourth Phase](www.fourthphase.co)
• On [Linkedin](linkedin.com/in/nana-eyeson-9aa14210)
• On Facebook
• On Instagram
• @africanhealthnw
• @fourthphasebox

What’s Nana watching?

• P-Valley on STARZ

Other topics of interest—

• FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital
• Star100
• Ridge Hospital Accra, Ghana
• Kayayei girls
• Mater Mea
• Honey Pot

Special Guest: Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo.

This week we meet Founder and President of African Health Now, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo. AHN is a community-based organization that provides primary health care to women, children and families in Sub Saharan Africa. AHN was born out of a family crisis that opened her eyes the realities of the state of basic healthcare information and empowerment in African communities. While selecting models as the Bookings Editor for ESSENCE, Nana ’s father became ill back in Ghana. The support of the local community helped him get back on his feet and Nana was inspired to ensure communities across the continent received health care.

In the past 14 years, AHN has impacted more than 20,000 people with health fairs focused on awareness of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), chronic diseases and general health in Ghana and Nigeria. She has also become a serial entreprenuer with her new start-up www.fourthphasebox.co which will launch in December 2020. Fourth Phase is her answer to the challenges women face in the period after birth, the fourth trimester and she is partnering with women owned businesses to create the box that literally is a life saver for women that would otherwise fo without in Africa; for each Fourth Phase box purchased, a women in an AHN partner facility in Africa also receives a box. Nana describes herself as a social entreprenuer, a dynamic special events professional, a project management specialist, a foodie and world traveler. A Brooklyn-bred Ghanaian, Nana is now based in New Jersey where she and her husband are raising their daughter.

Where to find Nana and African Health Now and Fourth Phase?

• [African health Now](www.africanhealthnow.org)
• [Fourth Phase](www.fourthphase.co)
• On [Linkedin](linkedin.com/in/nana-eyeson-9aa14210)
• On Facebook
• On Instagram
• @africanhealthnw
• @fourthphasebox

What’s Nana watching?

• P-Valley on STARZ

Other topics of interest—
• FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital
• Star100
• Ridge Hospital Accra, Ghana
• Kayayei girls
• Mater Mea
• Honey Pot

Special Guest: Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo.