Mental Health Awareness Month Webinar - We've Been Too Patient: Radical Stories from the Margins
Mental Health Awareness Month Webinar - We've Been Too Patient: Radical Stories from the Margins
Join us for a live webinar
In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, join us for an urgent conversation centering on stories from those who have gone through and challenged psychiatric systems. Then, we will engage in a real-time conversation on healing and justice during a live Q&A.
When:
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
11:00 AM
Pacific Time
About the webinar:
Editor Kelechi Ubozoh and contributor Leah Harris will read and reflect on their work from the powerful anthology, “We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health”—a collection now taught at Boston University, NYU, and Cal State East Bay, and recently released as an audiobook.
Speakers:
Kelechi Ubozoh
Kelechi Ubozoh is an Oakland/Ohlone based Nigeria-American dreamer, writer, space holder, advocate and coach. She has spent over a decade working in the California mental health field in the areas of research and advocacy, community engagement, suicide prevention and peer support. Kelechi dreams of liberation and joy for those most impacted by systemic harm. Her book with LD Green, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, elevates marginalized voices of lived experience who have endured psychiatric mistreatment is featured in the curriculum at Boston University, New York University, Cal State East bay and is now available as an audiobook. Currently, she facilitates Black healing centered spaces, partners with youth on participatory action research, works with communities on system transformation and liberation, and celebrates her coach partners for their incredible wisdom and insight. Her work is featured in the forthcoming books, When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted In Ancestral Medicine, Self-Care in Social Work, Beyond the Carceral State: Forensic Psychology and Black Resistance, We Are Here: Mental Health Therapists, Academics, and Leaders with Lived Experience of Mental Health Challenges, and Mad Studies Reader.
Leah Harris
Leah Harris is a lived experience journalist and writer rooted for 25 years in movements for liberation and human rights. Her writing and advocacy has revolved around resisting involuntary and carceral mental health policies and uplifting peer-led supports and community care. She is a regular contributor to Mad in America, and her writing appears in publications including “The Progressive Magazine,” “Passengers Journal,” the “Disability Visibility Project,” in the anthologies “We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health” and the “Mad Studies Reader.” Leah has been a guest on the Madness Radio, Committable, Depth Work, and the Death Panel podcasts, and has spoken at colleges and universities including Marquette, Harvard, Penn, and Yale.