Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 02/07/2025.
This session will provide participants with a radical safe space to discuss and learn about the impact of social media on youth mental health and dive into the nuances that we often neglect to pay attention to when talking about Gen z's relationship to social media. We will talk about the intersection between social media and the systematic and intentional equating of people with profit, capitalization upon vulnerability, and how to build solidarity, find community, and create change.
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This session will provide attendees with an overview of the benefits of creative and culturally responsive storytelling practices such as spoken word poetry, journaling, narrative fiction, oral history recitation, and memoir writing in mental healthcare. Attendees will learn that expressing one’s lived mental health experiences through storytelling can promote healthy identity-exploration and affect systemic change, while learning how to craft their own lived experience narratives. This session also incorporates spoken word poetic elements in which Sophie shares her own story about how writing poetry while institutionalized saved her life and gave her purpose through advocacy to inspire audience members to engage in their own storytelling and change making practices.
Sophie performs spoken word poetry at events on topics ranging from suicide prevention to youth empowerment to political inaugurations.
Sophie Szew is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Beyond the Buzzword: Demystifying "The Algorithm" & Its Impact on Youth Mental Health , Storytelling as Collective Healing and Performance Poetry. The estimated speaking fee range to book Sophie Szew for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Sophie Szew generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Cole Williams, Rachel Slawson, Roxy Azari, Melania Luisa Marte and Arielle Estoria. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sophie Szew for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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