Kelechi Ubozoh

Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American singer, writer, and mental health advocate.  Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Kelechi holds a BA in journalism from Purchase College, and was the first undergraduate ever published in The New York Times. Recently, Kelechi was featured in the SAMSHA Voice Award-Winning documentary, The S Word, which follow the lives of suicide attempt survivors in an effort to end the stigma and silence around suicide. Previously, Kelechi supervised stigma discrimination reduction programs and led communication operations at a mental health non-profit organization, PEERS, including a mental health stigma reduction research program for Chinese mental health consumers where she partnered with Dr. Larry Yang and Columbia University. She also was the lead project coordinator in a California Mental Health Service Act funded statewide project, where she applied evidence-based research from working with Dr. Patrick Corrigan to train speakers’ bureau on how to share targeted mental health recovery stories across 41 California counties. When she isn’t working she runs a Bay Area quarterly, submission-based reading series called MoonDrop Productions, and performs at literary readings across the Bay. Her work was recently published in an Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color, called Endangered Species, Enduring Values from Pease Press. https://kelechiubozoh.wordpress.com/