About Talks with Sosa

Talks with Sosa is a public speaking and event series founded in 2018 by Sosa Eweka-Valentine—a registered nurse, journalist, and mental health advocate. With a strong focus on mental health awareness and destigmatization, Talks with Sosa creates safe, intentional spaces for open conversations around emotional well-being, healing, and resilience.

Rooted in the mission to “stop the stigma,” the series brings together therapists, advocates, creatives, and people with lived experience to explore complex and often unspoken realities surrounding mental health—particularly within immigrant and marginalized communities.

Since its first event in Surrey, BC, Talks with Sosa has grown into a trusted platform for:

  • Challenging stigma around mental health
  • Highlighting culturally relevant perspectives
  • Empowering individuals with tools for healing
  • Fostering honest, communal dialogue

Through panels, storytelling, fireside chats, and creative expression, Talks with Sosa invites people to name their struggles and reclaim their voice—because mental wellness should never be a solitary journey.

About Sosa Eweka

Eseosa (Sosa) Eweka-Valentine is the founder of Talks with Sosa; a public speaking platform that seeks to bring experts to discuss a myriad of issues from social justice to mental health. She is also the founder of Salt City Advocacy Society, a not-for-profit society with the purpose of creating a better environment for refugees and new immigrants most especially women and children of African descent.

EVENTS HOSTED AND SPOKEN AT

2018
Host and Speaker at Talks with Sosa; Themed Addictions
2019
UBC LIU Institute for Global Issues; Building connections between and within.
2019
Host and Speaker at Talks with Sosa; The African Woman as a modernizer
2019
Host and Speaker African Stages Symposium; The Stories we tell: PEACEMAKING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING THROUGH MULTIPLE VOICES AND CULTURES
2019
Host and Speaker African Stages Black History Month celebration.
2020
Speaker and Host Talks with Sosa Mental Health
2020
African Stages COVID-19 awareness
2020
Black History Month and Africa Heritage
2020
African Stages symposium- Global Africa and the Virus
2020
Book Launch: Barefoot & Awestruck Lindi Nolte

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