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Olachi Tiffany Etoh is a 31-year-old writer and first generation Nigerian born and raised in Maryland. She attended St. Paul’s School for Girls in Brooklandville, Maryland, and then Boston University, where she attended the School of Management, now known as the Questrom School of Business. After two years, she transferred to the University of Baltimore, where she participated in visiting studies in Shanghai and Beijing, and finally graduated cum laude with a B.S in International Business. She accepted invitations into leadership honors societies like Sigma Iota Epsilon.
Olachi became an advocate for those with mental health disorders, and continues to speak publicly for organizations like the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). Her writing has been published by the Treatment Advocacy Center and NAMI National, detailing her lived experience. She has appeared on multiple major podcasts which capture the cultural zeitgeist of mental health in diaspora.
She was also a panel speaker at the Illinois Mental Health Summit, hosted by the Illinois Supreme Court. She participates in evolving mental health response training with the Chicago Police Department. Her advocacy efforts have been profiled by the Chicago Tribune. She has a completed memoir, she aspires to publish, tentatively titled: In Dreamland.
Her name is pronounced ( uh ・la・chee )