ZeZe Sohawon

Chief Executive Officer

Emotion Dysregulation in Autism

Biography

ZeZe, is a mental health speaker Churchill fellow, mental health researcher and CEO of a youth mental health and autism charity called Emotion Dysregulation in Autism. She has spoken at a TEDx event in 2021 about suicide prevention and mental health struggles she has encountered.

In 2022, ZeZe represented UK at a global youth mental health conference in front of Danish royalty and created a peer support programme for internationally-travelling young people.

On an international public-facing anti-stigma campaign for Personality Disorders, ZeZe has contributed her lived experience and discussed impacting change to senior policy makers. She has also spoken with policy makers and clinicians to ensure that the local psychiatric unit is renovated, consequently generating £4.8 million. Some of the organizations she has worked with include the National Autistic Society, the Centre for Mental Health and the Speakers Collective.

ZeZe is autistic and has lived experience of schizophrenia and personality disorder. She uses her lived experience of being sectioned for 4 years as a teen, in psychiatric intensive care and secure units, to impact meaningful change in the world around her, across the UK and beyond.