July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month & Disability Pride Month. We celebrate 2023's theme of "Culture, Community, and Connection" with our guest kelly George. Kelly George is an advocate for people with neurodiversities. She is the Brooklyn born founder of Real Resilience Coaching & Consulting where she helps organizations and communities create environments that take neurodiversity into consideration.
Topics we touch on in today’s wide-ranging conversation include:
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Kelly George (she/ella), (they/elle) was born and raised in Brooklyn and continues to call
Brooklyn Lenape land home. Kelly is an international public speaker, workshop facilitator, and emotional wellness coach. Kelly identifies as a bipolar neurodivergent, queer, Black-Latinx human born to immigrant parents from Panama and Trinidad lands. Kelly speaks loud and proud about anti-oppressive mental health, psychologically safer workplaces, and neurodiversity.
Kelly is also the founder of Real Resilience Coaching & Consulting. Real Resilience supports leaders, organizations, and communities design emotionally just work ecosystems, custom designed with the neurodiverse community in mind.
In November 2022, Kelly was awarded the honor to join Borealis Philanthropy’s first Participatory Grantmaking Committee with 15 other talented committee members selected for the Black Led Movement Fund. All committee members selected, identify as BIPOC individuals, and/or queer, TGNC transgender, gender non-conforming folks that are leaders in the current liberation movement for Black lives. In March 2023 the committee made the final decision to grant 30 organizations across the US multi-year grants totaling $6M million.
Most recently Kelly was a panelist for the launch of a report by the New York Women’s
Foundation titled: The State of Women and Girls with Disabilities in New York. Kelly shared reflections on the report as the Programs & Partnerships Lead with the Fireweed Collective; a non-profit dedicated to the disability justice and healing justice movement for BIPOC queer, trans, gender non-conforming, neurodivergent, and chronically ill.
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