Bio:

Joesh Khunkhun is a recipient of the Loran Award valued at $100,000 as well as the recipient of the Terry Fox Humanitarian award valued at $28,000. He is an advocate for mental health and learning differences, a professional speaker & a first-year University of British Columbia student studying cognitive sciences and psychology. At the age of 12, he was the youngest person to ever speak at the Global Civic Public Salon. At age 14, he presented a TEDx talk called: “ADHD and My Purpose'' Through Future-ready Minds and Stigma Free Society, he's spoken to over 10,000 students and his lesson plans on anti-racism and ADHD are in over 800 schools across Canada. He is currently researching how social media can be used to provide culturally specific information to people in remote parts of the world and recently became a digital health fellow to do just that.