Category: Black Excellence

Bernard is a renowned leader in the innovation, assistivetechnology, and entrepreneurship for disability inclusion in Africa. He is passionate about being a success catalyst and bridge for Startup teams and venture founders using the power of technology and entrepreneurship to change the world.

Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator

Innovate Now has helped to launch 21 African assistive tech ventures over four acceleration cycles. African start-ups receive mentorship, learning and expert guidance over a 3-6 month period to create market fit, scalable and investable Assistive Technologies (AT). 

https://www.deborahrobertsart.com/artist-statement

Deborah Roberts (American, b. 1962) is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty.

https://gsep.pepperdine.edu/about/our-people/faculty/shelly-harrell

Dr. Harrell is a licensed psychologist with areas of specialization in multicultural and community psychology. Her research interests include cultural dimensions of wellness and positive well-being, racism-related stress, resilience-oriented stress management interventions, culturally-diverse contemplative practices, humanistic-existential and integrative approaches to psychotherapy, and African American mental health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France.

Dr Zolelwa Sifumba is a young, passionate global health activist, medical doctor ,Clinical Research Fellow at the Africa Health Research Institute and is an HBNU Fogarty Global Health Fellow conducting research in Tuberculosis, an illness close to her heart.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245264129/death-doula-alua-arthur-briefly-perfectly-human

As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life and, when the time comes, to let go. She says that while we’re conditioned to fear death, thinking and talking about it is instrumental to creating meaningful lives.

https://www.barbarawalker.co.uk/index.php/info/about/

Barbara Walker MBE, RA is a British artist based in Birmingham in the UK. Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that affect her life and the lives of those around her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noo_Saro-Wiwa

Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denyce_Graves

Denyce Graves (born March 7, 1964) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.