Urmila Menon is a creative educator, writer, and speaker who believes in the power of stories to turn pain into purpose. As the founder of The Creative Wellness Project, with over a decade of cross-cultural teaching experience, she guides individuals to build emotional resilience in high-pressure environments using accessible, transformative creative practices.
Her work has been featured in the South China Morning Post, and exhibited across Hong Kong, India, Australia, Taiwan, and London — explores belonging, mental wellbeing, and representation, using art to advocate for Inclusion for All and amplify voices often unheard.
A South Indian woman navigating life and work in Hong Kong, Urmila is the author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller Color Coded: Finding Ourselves and Our Stories, a raw, radiant journey of unlearning, healing, and remembering who you were before the world told you who to be, written from the intersection of identity, creativity, and representation.
