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ON VISIONING A PEER WORKFORCE Jennifer Maria Padron is a national advocate for mental diversity in community public mental health care, outspoken activist, and a subject...

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...

Laysha Ostrow is the CEO of Live & Learn, Inc. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2014, and...

Jasenn Zaejian, PhD, worked as a clinical psychologist with severely disturbed folks for more than 40 years. Dr. Zaejian retired to devote his energies to...

BEHAVIORISM AND MENTAL HEALTH Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist.  He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers, nursing...

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...

Michael Fontaine, PhD, is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Cornell University.  He publishes mostly on Latin literature and ancient Roman...

Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician who practiced holistic (non-drug) mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in...

COMMONSENSE REBELLION Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists,...

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...

THE DELUSIONAL PHARMACIST Bertel Rüdinger is the only clinical pharmacist in Denmark working with people in supported living. His work focuses on empowering people to...

DEBUNKING ADHD AND THE DRUGGING OF KIDS Michael W. Corrigan, EdD, is a tenured professor at Marshall University with expertise in Educational Psychology, Human Development, and...

Brian Koehler is an adjunct associate professor in the departments of Social Work and adjunct faculty and supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy...

Janet Currie is a prescription drug safety advocate who lives and works in Victoria, BC. A researcher by profession, she initially learned the hard...

FINDING OUR WAY HOME Jennifer Maurer is the managing director for Mother Bear Family Mental Health Network, a nonprofit organization and fund of the Foundation for Excellence...

EXPORTING DISORDERS: GLOBAL MARKETS IN MADNESS China Mills is a lecturer in Critical Educational Psychology at the University of Sheffield’s School of Education, and is...

Steve McCrea, MS, is a mental health professional, advocate and author living with his wife, Ginny, in Portland, OR. He has worked for over...

Janet Foner has been the International Liberation Reference Person for Mental Health Liberation for the global Re-evaluation Counseling community since 1992. As such, she writes...

THIRD PATH PSYCHIATRY Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM, is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the book, A Mind of Your Own and co-editor of the landmark...

RECLAIMING THE UNCONSCIOUS Jay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and mental health activist living in London. Dr Watts had held many senior clinical and...

ALTERNATIVES IN THE UK Rachel Waddingham is the manager of the London Hearing Voices Project, developing innovative services to support people who hear voices or...

FIGURING SHIT OUT Amy Biancolli's third book, Figuring Shit Out: Love, Laughter, Suicide, and Survival (2014, Behler Publications), is a memoir of the year following her...

Steven Morgan is Operations Manager and a trainer for Intentional Peer Support.  Over the past decade, he’s worked various peer support roles in both...

Brenda Vezina has served as Executive Director of the Central MA Recovery Learning Community for the past seven years. Her work in creating a...

Bridget Mildon is the president and founder of FND Hope. FND Hope is the first non-profit organization specifically for those diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder...