Karen Michelle Brooks

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Karen Michelle Brooks was born in Windhoek, Namibia and spent her first twenty years there before moving to Cape Town, South Africa. Currently holding a BA.HSSS (Psych) from Unisa, and with a wealth of alternative modalities under her belt, she spends her time counselling people in Metaphysics: what she calls, Life, the Universe and Everything Else.

Her most recent claim to fame is in being the first South African author of the MBook (a book on cellphone) entered in the international Meffy awards, with her teenage fiction fantasy Emily series books, Emily and the Battle of the Veil and Emily and the Sprites of Light. For more info see: www.karenmichellebrooks.com

What would your talk at TEDxJohannesburg focus on?: 

Writing the Future
As a nation, and world, of storytellers we have come full circle. Wisdom first came from the elders as we sat at their knees, then as families dispersed into the global village of the industrial age, only a few chosen stories, deemed important, were published for the global family to read-hear. Now that we have entered the digital age, with blogs, cellphones and self-publishing, we can all tell our stories again.

Where can we experience you as a speaker?: 
On past Top Billing's, TEDxJohanesburg and anytime you can catch me at a school.