Founder & Executive DirectorStrongMinds
Sean Mayberry is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that treating depression in women in Africa is the most simple and cost-effective way to address systemic poverty. Sean implemented successful HIV/AIDS and malaria programs in Africa for years, and saw firsthand how undetected, untreated depression negatively affected people’s lives. As a result, in 2013, Sean founded StrongMinds, a social enterprise with the mission of improving the mental health of women in Africa.
Sean has served as a SOCAP Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Cordes Foundation Fellow, and a GLG Fellow. In addition to that, in 2020 he won the Humanitarian Award from the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health. Sean has been interviewed about his work with StrongMinds in the Fall 2018 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Forbes. StrongMinds’ work has been covered by The Guardian, the BBC, and The New York Times.
Eastern and Southern Africa