Yang-May Ooi is a cross-cultural advocate and author. She believes passionately that personal stories are universal to all of us, whatever our background or culture.
She is Chinese by heritage, Malaysian by birth and British by choice.
Her new multimedia project Belonging Across Cultures is her creative response to our increasingly divided and disconnected world. It emerges from her family history of migration and her personal experience of being both an insider and outsider in different cultures.
Yang-May writes, “My aim is to share stories from across cultural and social divides. I go in search of what brings us together, what values we share, what struggles and joys we all experience. I also recognise and celebrate differences because it is in our distinctness that we find the great gift of being human.”
Find out more at www.BelongingAcrossCultures.uk
Her books include internationally acclaimed novels The Flame Tree and Mindgame (Hodder & Stoughton; Monsoon Books) and an award-nominated business book International Communications Strategy (Kogan Page).
She has also written and performed in the five star solo theatre play of Bound Feet Blues – A Life Told in Shoes (Tristan Bates Theatre), and published a family memoir of the same name (Urbane Publications).
Her podcasts have addressed key issues of our times – anxiety (The Anxiety Advantage), climate matters (MetroWild) and creativity (Creative Conversations). She also hosted the podcast of the mental health charity, Beyond Conflict, where her guests included humanitarian Terry Waite.
