Silent Struggles: Mental Health in the Shadows of Environmental Neglect

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Silent Struggles: Mental Health in the Shadows of Environmental Neglect

9am PST, 12pm EST, 4pm GMT

October 18th, 2025
Location: Zoom
Time: 9am PST, 12pm EST, 4pm GMT

From Awareness to Action

The environment is not just the land, air, or water around us, it’s the social, physical, and emotional conditions that shape how we live, survive, and are treated. At the 3rd Annual Speak Out Seminar, we will speak about the impact of water scarcity, disease, climate-driven migration, and how they intersect with social stigma and mental health challenges in vulnerable communities throughout the world.

Through powerful personal stories and expert insights, let’s talk about what it means to be a survivor and how sharing stories can create change. This year’s “Speak Out” will be centering voices affected by environmental injustice, stigma, and mental health struggles. Our courageous speakers will share their lived experiences of navigating skin-related discrimination and displacement.

Join us as we speak truth to stigma and environmental neglect through an interactive seminar experience with the opportunity for participant engagement, collaboration, and community building. Be a part of a growing dialogue and movement that believes in the power of speaking out to transform lives and communities.

Keynote Speaker

REUBEN SAM
Model, Cultural Strategist, Advocate
United Kingdom



AGENDA

Opening/Welcome

Speaker #1: Jonathan Adabre
Topic: Invisible Wounds: Mental Health, Water Issues, and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Poll

Speaker #2: Blessing Nabila
Topic: Out of the Shadows: Surviving Stigma with Albinism

Poll

Speaker #3: Reuben Sam
Topic: Keynote address: Living in the Light: Mental Health and Vitiligo

Break Out Rooms

Speaker #4: Dr. Areej Semreen
Topic: Silent Currents: Mental Health, Climate &
Environmental Displacement

Poll

Q&A

Closing

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