Autistic and Black
Our Experiences of Growth, Progress and Empowerment

Kala Allen Omeiza is an autistic writer and founder of a minority mental health initiative I'm Heard. She is the author of novels about neurodiversity and autism awareness including Afrotistic (2022) and The Worst Saturday Ever (2023). As a former mental health researcher, Kala has worked on various research projects on mental health and neurodiverse conditions at Harvard, Duke, Oxford, Harvard Medical School, and as a US Fulbright scholar in Nigeria. Kala is a graduate of Miami University and a MSc graduate of the University of Oxford in the UK.