Home Hub (Discovery Space)
Oct 24, 2024
2:30 PM3:10 PM
HO
Héloïse Onumba-Bessonnet
LOBA
CEO of LOBA
Description
Ms. Onumba-Bessonnet is the Director of LOBA, a French nonprofit using art as a tool for social activism in France and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A victimologist specialized in sexual violence in conflict zones, she leads LOBA’s "Re-Creation" project", offering therapeutic workshops to 600 women annually and facilitating two workshops per week. Internationally active, she participated in the 2023 IVLP program by the U.S. Embassy in France and shared her research at the 2nd National Black Mental Health Conference in Ottawa and the 5th Mukwege Chair in Montreal, promoting healing through art and gender-based violence prevention.
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