Emmanuela A. Boansi
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Emmanuela is the emotional and social systems architect around Mary’s work, a mental health and SRHR-focused operator who deeply understands how real people experience care, stigma, trauma, and trust. Her background spans psychology at the University of Ghana, frontline mental health exposure at Korle Bu Psychiatry, and roles in the UNFPA Gender & Human Rights Unit, UNHCR Protection Unit, and multiple advocacy, outreach, and policy environments. She has worked as a helpline operator for GBV survivors, assisted with refugee documentation and protection, and led or supported campaigns on mental health, menstrual hygiene, breast cancer awareness, and youth empowerment.
At UNFPA, she conceptualized, designed, and implemented programs including 16 Days of Activism, End Child Marriage, BRASA, Breast4Rest, MenAware, and PeriodHelp, while serving on outreach and resource mobilization teams, turning abstract human rights narratives into structured projects with clear goals, partners, and measurable outputs. Her experience at the National Communications Authority and Judicial Service adds policy analysis, process improvement, and systems-level capability.
Emmanuela is a belonging-driven, emotionally intelligent operator who is fiercely loyal, honest, and highly attuned to how others feel. She serves as a natural “trust bridge” between Mary’s products and communities, youth, survivors, and patients. Having seen real trauma up close—including GBV, refugee precarity, depression, and dementia—she chooses to lean in, bringing resilience and empathy to the center of patient experience and mental health programs. At Mary, she architects how care feels and how communities engage: designing and running mental health and SRHR programs aligned with PAT deployments and digital tools, shaping patient communication scripts, outreach content, and community education campaigns, supporting trauma-informed UX and service design for survivors and vulnerable groups, and leading youth-focused engagement, advocacy, and feedback loops that inform product and policy. Her work ensures Mary’s infrastructure is not cold, clinical “tech for the poor,” but a lived, trusted, human experience that turns Mary from a device and software company into a movement people want to belong to.
