Alternatives to Coercive Mental Health Care
I believe care should never come at the cost of autonomy, dignity, or community. My advocacy challenges involuntary treatment, especially forms like Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), and works to promote non-coercive, peer-led alternatives grounded in rights and relationship. This includes public education, policy analysis, and organizing to resist carceral mental health responses.
Peer Support & Lived Experience Leadership
As someone with lived experience of psychosis, peer support has been central to both my healing and my professional path. I’ve worked to elevate the voices of peer workers, challenge tokenism, and imagine new possibilities for peer leadership — not just integration. My work focuses on advancing peer roles within early psychosis programs, supporting training rooted in survivor knowledge, and pushing for structural change to address wage disparities, career ceilings, and devaluation.
Psychosis, Voice-Hearing & Altered States
I’m drawn to the edges of experience , to voices, visions, felt presence, shifts in time and space. These are often reduced to “symptoms,” but I see them as rich, complex, and deeply human. My research and creative work aim to reclaim the meaning of psychosis from reductionist frameworks, elevate first-person narratives, and explore how these phenomena shape (and are shaped by) culture, trauma, and resistance.
Policy, Systems Change & Public Scholarship
I’m committed to shifting the mental health system not just through research or protest, but through public conversation, participatory policy work, and storytelling. Whether through op-eds, collaborative policy analysis, or co-authored consensus statements, I try to make space for survivor perspectives in decision-making arenas where we’re too often excluded.
Alternatives to Coercive Mental Health Care
I believe care should never come at the cost of autonomy, dignity, or community. My advocacy challenges involuntary treatment, especially forms like Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), and works to promote non-coercive, peer-led alternatives grounded in rights and relationship. This includes public education, policy analysis, and organizing to resist carceral mental health responses.
Peer Support & Lived Experience Leadership
As someone with lived experience of psychosis, peer support has been central to both my healing and my professional path. I’ve worked to elevate the voices of peer workers, challenge tokenism, and imagine new possibilities for peer leadership — not just integration. My work focuses on advancing peer roles within early psychosis programs, supporting training rooted in survivor knowledge, and pushing for structural change to address wage disparities, career ceilings, and devaluation.
Psychosis, Voice-Hearing & Altered States
I’m drawn to the edges of experience , to voices, visions, felt presence, shifts in time and space. These are often reduced to “symptoms,” but I see them as rich, complex, and deeply human. My research and creative work aim to reclaim the meaning of psychosis from reductionist frameworks, elevate first-person narratives, and explore how these phenomena shape (and are shaped by) culture, trauma, and resistance.
Policy, Systems Change & Public Scholarship
I’m committed to shifting the mental health system not just through research or protest, but through public conversation, participatory policy work, and storytelling. Whether through op-eds, collaborative policy analysis, or co-authored consensus statements, I try to make space for survivor perspectives in decision-making arenas where we’re too often excluded.