Meet Kathy Flaherty
#LetsFaceIt Lawyer Kathy Flaherty knows stigma from both sides of the bench if you will. Not only has she made a career of helping people with disabilities overcome legal issues, […]
Meet Delmonti Porter
#LetsFaceIt “What always runs through my mind when we go places with participants is they’re stigmatized. They’re looked at side-eyed,” he says. “It runs through my mind that there but […]
Meet Amy Jaffe Barzach
#LetsFaceIt As a society, we intellectually understand loss that comes from death. What we are less adept at understanding and facing is loss in its many other forms. And that’s […]
Meet Jamie McDonald
#LetsFaceIt Restaurateur Jamie McDonald wants people to know that sometimes what you see on the outside is not at all what’s going on inside. The owner of the Bear’s Smokehouse […]
Meet Vern Montoute
#LetsFaceIt Say the word yoga and most people think of calm, accepting environments, places where all are welcomed and embraced as they explore spiritual understanding through a series of poses […]
Meet Kailey MarcAurele
#LetsFaceIt When we break an arm or learn we have cancer, we typically have no issue sharing the news and the story around it. Substitute cancer for something like bipolar […]
Meet Melissa Geathers
#LetsFaceIt Sometimes what you see is really only part of what’s actually there. It’s a message that Melissa Geathers, mother to a 12-year-old son who lives with bipolar disease, wishes […]
Meet Amanda Brenner
#LetsFaceIt A recent graduate focusing on policy practice with a special interest in mental health policy, Brenner, 27, has lived experience and knows firsthand how internalized shame and self-stigma can […]
Hate is A Crime, Not A Mental Health Condition
According to the FBI as reported on by the NY Times, “About 64.9 percent of the 8,052 reported hate crime incidents [in 2020] were based on race, ethnicity or ancestry […]
Meet Jim Carlon
#LetsFaceIt Stamford attorney Jim Carlon seemed to have it all—family, successful legal career in both private practice and as a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army Reserve. […]
