Dr Samantha Hiew

Dr Samantha Hiew is the founder of ADHD Girls, a social impact company with a dual mission to empower neurodivergent women and improve neurodiversity understanding through an intersectional lens. With lived experience of ADHD, autism, and identifying with dyspraxic traits, Sam is a highly sought after speaker on neurodiversity, women’s empowerment and intersectionality. Sam weaves her scientific, medical communications, and cross-cultural background to illuminate neurodiversity in an accessible and relatable way. Her mission is to go beyond the surface to explain the root causes, and she has won multiple awards for her work including the Difference Maker Award, the Rising Star Award (Entrepreneurs), Innovation & Excellence Award (Women’s Mental Health Initiative) and the Storyteller Award (This Can Happen). Sam has spoken to over 100,000 people to date and organically built an online audience of over 70,000 followers across her channels. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, Loose Women, Stylist Magazine, the Guardian, BBC, and Research Features. http://www.adhdgirls.co.uk linkedin.com/in/samanthahiew instagram.com/samanthahiewphd instagram.com/adhdgirlscollective