Fatima Seedat is a mental health professional, advocate and social impact specialist with 18 years of experience across mental health, support and care, programme development, fundraising, communications, advocacy and community engagement.

She has worked with organisations including SADAG, the South African Federation for Mental Health and the Advanced Integrated Medical Centre, where she has been involved in developing and implementing innovative mental health programmes, particularly in low-resource and underserved communities. Her work spans mental health support and care, awareness and prevention, community-based interventions, strategic partnerships, fundraising and using communications to drive social change.

Fatima is passionate about finding innovative ways to make mental health support more accessible and bringing important conversations into communities where they are often overlooked. She has extensive experience working across nonprofit, corporate and community spaces, building partnerships and turning ideas into impactful programmes and campaigns.

She recently founded The Uplift Project, a social impact initiative focused on mental health, youth empowerment, mental health in sport and supporting organisations and communities to create meaningful change.

Fatima is driven by a belief that meaningful social impact requires more than raising awareness. It requires access, support, innovation, collaboration and action.