OlaRose Ndubuisi (17 years old) was announced as the 2024-2025 New York State Youth Poet Laureate at an event last night, April 18, 2024 by Urban Word and Teachers & Writers Collaborative in collaboration with Girls Write Now. OlaRose was selected out of 75 applicants by a panel of judges who are former Poet Laureates…
OlaRose Ndubuisi (16 years old) was invited to an interview by WROC News 8 CBS News for their Generation ROC segment that highlights outstanding youth in the community. OlaRose was interviewed on March 12, 2024 for winning the 2024 Prudential Emerging Visionaries Award for her scoliosis advocacy through her project, Finding Scoliosis Kindly. OlaRose Ndubuisi…
While still recovering from scoliosis surgery, OlaRose Ndubuisi traveled to Nigeria in West Africa in July 2023 with Mezu International Foundation for their annual medical mission trip. In Imo State, Nigeria, OlaRose held a free scoliosis seminar and educated 300 patients and kids about scoliosis. She screened 20 kids for scoliosis using a scoliometer and…
OlaRose was selected for the “Do The Right Thing Award” by the City of Rochester. She was chosen for her bravery, leadership, heroism, advocacy and positive role model behavior in spreading scoliosis awareness through her project “Finding Scoliosis Kindly (FiSK)” using her poetry, art, music, photography, and her FiSK research survey and t-shirt fundraiser which…
On December 26, 2022, family and friends came together in solidarity to show love and support to OlaRose as she prepared for her scoliosis surgery. OlaRose shared the inspiration behind her latest artwork called, “My Perspective of Scoliosis”, and received blessings before her surgery. OlaRose started a project to raise global awareness for scoliosis called…
