Soul Perspectives is a long-running program creating space for critical discussion about local, national and international issues of concern to Montreal’s Black community.

Every Tuesday 7 - 8:30pm (EDT)

October 10, 2023: Interview w/TedX Speaker & Poet: Asante Haughton

This week, we speak with Asante Haughton, a mental health advocate devoted to changing the world. He is focused on amplifying the stories of everyday people to illuminate gaps in the system while working to build bridges between community members and policy makers in order to find solutions to challenges together.

Asante has two TEDx talks, has won a national mental health award, is a published poet, provides platforms for supportive storytelling, and co-founded the Reach Out Response Network, which led the advocacy to implement non-police mobile crisis teams as first responders to mental health calls in Toronto. Young at heart, silly, self-deprecating and able to find a sports analogy for virtually anything, Asante tries not to take himself too seriously despite being engaged in the serious work of changemaking!

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