Laurie Irelind — Long Bio
Laurie Irelind, an RN specializing in cardiology, was working as a nurse educator at a large teaching hospital before becoming disabled due to the adverse...
Matt Stevenson — Long Bio
Matt Stevenson is a formerly psychotic American man. After suffering through and recovering from severe psychosis, he now works a normal job and is...
Liat Ben-Moshe — Long Bio
Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. She is currently working on a manuscript examining the...
David Guttman — Long Bio
David Guttman is a father, an entrepreneur and a crossfitter. He is also a voracious reader, a world traveler and president of First Stop...
Ronda Richardson — Long Bio
Ronda Richardson is an artist and peer support worker from Canada. She wants to see reforms within smaller communities and rural areas, including more...
Sarah Carr, PhD — Long Bio
Dr Sarah Carr is Associate Professor of Mental Health Research, Middlesex University London and also runs her own mental health and social care knowledge...
Jen Constantine – Long Bio
Jen Constantine is a psychiatric system survivor, mental health advocate, wife, and mom. Jen grew up in the Black Hills of rural South Dakota....
Nesrin Shaheen – Long Bio
Nesrin Shaheen is a director and founding president of the Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Foundation in Canada. Her daughter was the first positively identified case...
Catherine Clarke–Long Bio
Catherine Clarke is a former nurse (SRN), midwife (SCM) and chiropodist (MSSCH MBChA.) Following her son’s violent propulsion into the mental health system, she...
Beatrice Birch — Long Bio
Beatrice Birch began her career as a teacher in an inner-city Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner School in Bristol, England in 1975. Deeply inspired by the healing...
Aimee Inomata – Long Bio
Aimee Inomata, PhD, is a writer, researcher and reformed academic who uses her training in philosophy and literature to critically analyze the underlying rhetoric...
Reid Bertino — Long Bio
Reid Bertino is a 30 year old man with a long history with the mental health system. From start to finish, the mental health...
Stephen LaCorte – Long Bio
Stephen LaCorte is an attorney in Texas who has worked in the oil and gas industry. He was harmed by benzodiazepines after being negligently...
Ken Blatt, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Ken Blatt trained at a time psychiatry was steeped in a humanistic, philosophic and social/relational tradition. Ken believes that over the course of...
Amy Beausang — Long Bio
The Wrong Profession?
Amy Beausang is a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) and certified health coach. She’s also a wife, mom, and group fitness instructor. After...
Chris Gordon, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Christopher Gordon is a board member of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and Medical Director and Senior Vice President for...
Clair Bien – Long Bio
Hearing Voices, Living Fully
Claire Bien, M.Ed., is a writer and grant writer at The Connection. She is also a voice hearer and formed the Hearing...
Otto Douglas — Long Bio
Otto Douglas is a York University graduate whose psychiatric incarceration opened his eyes to a previously unknown world — a world in which human...
Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz – Long Bio
MIA-UMB NEWS TEAM
Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at UMass Boston. Prior...
Peter Simons – Long Bio
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Peter Simons comes from a background in the humanities. Before earning a graduate degree in psychology, he studied English, philosophy, and art....
Akansha Vaswani – Long Bio
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Akansha Vaswani is a therapist and a researcher with a particular interest in the lived experiences of people’s lives. Her early history...
Shannon Peters – Long Bio
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Shannon Peters is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and has a master’s degree in mental health counseling. Shannon...
Merry Citoli — Long Bio
Merry Citoli is an award-winning singer/songwriter and screenplay writer whose life went into a downward spiral after being put on lorazepam for insomnia and...
David Baksh — Long Bio
David Baksh, co-director and cinematographer for Yoghurt Utopia, has had a diverse directing career, which spans broadcast TV, commercials, event visuals and award-winning digital ad campaigns, making...
Anna Thomson — Long Bio
Anna Thomson, co-director/producer of the Yoghurt Utopia documentary, is a director of documentaries and drama-docs who has worked for Discovery, Nat Geo, History Channel, BBC, Sky Arts and...
