Students and staff had the opportunity to watch a livestream with guest speaker Randell Adjei in March 2024.
- Watch the recording Note: A music video starts at timestamp 3:39. To skip it, scroll ahead to 7:55.
Topics covered and what to expect
Randell spoke about adversity, resilience, mental health, learning to shift mindset, not letting adversity define you and his personal story of how he transformed negative experiences to positive experiences. He incorporated his poetry throughout the presentation.
About Randell Adjei
Randell
Adjei is a poet, activist, arts educator, author, community leader and an
inspirational speaker from Scarborough, Ontario. He is the founder of
one of Toronto’s largest and longest running youth led initiatives: Reaching
intelligent Souls Everywhere (R.I.S.E Edutainment).
Randell
went from being arrested at 12 years old, to being named high school
valedictorian in a span of five years. He is an inspirational speaker and helps
others through his poetry: www.randelladjei.com/mystory