Meet Jacquilyn Davis
Jacquilyn Davis imagines a world without stigma. As a mixed race woman, she knows firsthand how stigma and intersectionality can negatively impact people’s behaviors and feelings about themselves and […]
Meet Jennifer Korwitz
#LetsFaceIt In fiction, families are often portrayed as the most supportive of a character in trouble. In real life, that is not always the case. It’s a behavior that Jennifer […]
Meet Quyên Trương
#LetsFaceIt Quyên Trương knows firsthand how a life of holding back, of keeping secrets, can take a toll on health, both physical and mental. She has also seen how a […]
Meet Sacha Armstrong-Crocket
#LetsFaceIt Sacha Armstrong-Crocket may be a real estate agent in her career, but her passion for housing goes far beyond buying and selling properties. She is also a community activist […]
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 […]
