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Ritu Riyat, MPH, MCHES

Ritu Riyat, MPH, MCHES

Yoga and Mindfulness Coach, Wellness Consultant, Owner of Nutritionize!, Creator of The 21 Day STRESS Detox Program

Ritu Riyat is a public health professional and founder of The Stress Detox specializing in helping individuals and organizations reduce stress and burnout through her highly effective 3D framework. Her speaking engagements and professional work has been with some of the world’s leading biotech, fintech, and start-up companies and cutting-edge Silicon Valley industry leaders.

Ritu has been featured in the New York Times and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and has been named a Health Hero by USC Department of Preventive Medicine. Her top-rated course The Stress Detox: Reduce Stress and Burnout in the Workplace  on Udemy for Business has reached over 13,000 students worldwide. Ritu integrates her evolution in the science and spirituality of stress with over two decades of training as a certified yoga teacher and vipassana practitioner.

Ritu holds a Bachelor of Science in Genetics from UC Davis, a Master of Public Health Epidemiology from USC, and is a Board-Certified Health Education Specialist. 

“When you change the way you look at things. What you look at changes.” 

For more information visit: www.thestressdetox.com

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Lian Zeitz

Lian Zeitz

Advisory Board Member, Global Mental Health Action Network

Lian Zeitz is a global mental health and wellbeing expert working to make sure all people are supported with love and dignity.  Lian has worked with therapeutic programs for struggling youth in 15 states in the US to identify pathways for young people to play a greater role in their own care and the development of mental health programs. He has also worked internationally on areas such as suicide prevention, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse in Bhutan, Indonesia, and Zambia. He is passionate about young people’s experiences in therapeutic programs, trauma-focused community development, and pathways to successful transitions in life. He was previously the Global Director of Love and Compassion for citiesRISE, a global platform committed to transforming the state of mental health policy and practice in cities and beyond to meet the mental health needs of populations across the world. In this role Lian supported the design and scale-up of mental health programs across 5 international cities and built a network of youth leaders passionate about mental health across the world. Lian currently serves on a number of international boards and advisory groups while completing a Master of Divinity at Naropa University, studying contemplative wisdom, bioethics, youth mental health, and community healing. Lian earned a B.A. from Quest University Canada, where he focused on public mental health and literature, and a certificate for Leadership in Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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Dr. Diane Dreher, PhD

Dr. Diane Dreher, PhD

Professor Emerita, Santa Clara University and lecturer in the Positive Psychology Guild in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Dreher has a Master’s degree in Counseling, and credentials in spiritual counseling and holistic health in addition to her UCLA Ph.D. in English. She is a HeartMath clinical practitioner and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Her books include the bestselling Tao of Inner Peace, Tao of Personal Leadership, Tao of Womanhood, Inner Gardening, and Your Personal Renaissance as well as scholarly books and articles. Dr. Dreher’s current research includes work on hope, Eastern philosophy, leadership, mindfulness, and positive psychology. Her work has been featured in national newspapers and magazines along with web sites on leadership and personal growth, and she writes a regular blog for Psychology Today. She has served as Chair of the English Department at Santa Clara University, as well as Faculty Senate President, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and President of the Santa Clara chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). She is Associate Director of the Institute for Applied Spirituality at Santa Clara University, has an international coaching practice, and offers classes and webinars on leadership, balance, and personal growth.

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Martin Rafferty

Martin Rafferty

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Youth Era

Under Martin’s innovative leadership, Youth Era has established services across the nation. He believes that one of Youth Era’s greatest strengths is the ability to give youth opportunities necessary for a successful transition into adulthood. He maintains that the most effective way to support the young adult population is for young adults to reach out to and support each other.

Martin currently sits on the national board of the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY) and Reachout.com’s youth board. In 2010, Martin won the Mental Health Award of Excellence from AMH and the Oregon Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (OCHH) Ma Curtis Award. Now, he continues to work towards improving services and systems that support positive youth development.

Learn More About Martin Rafferty:

https://www.youthera.org/leadership

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Kelly Davis

Kelly Davis

Associate Vice President of Peer and Youth Advocacy, Mental Health America

Kelly’s lived experience with mental health diagnoses and trauma are at the center of her passion for transforming how we support individuals and change systems and services. She currently works in Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services, where she is involved in promoting peer support, peer certification, youth and young adult leadership, and college mental health.

She is passionate about trauma-informed care, peer support, consumer-led transformation, positive psychology, and civil rights. She serves in an advisory role to the Well Being Trust, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and the Center for Law and Social Policy. She has spoken at many events, including The White House Making Health Care Better Series on Mental Health, and has been featured in media outlets including NBC Nightly News, The Mighty, Thrive Global, Yes! Magazine, and Mashable.

In 2019, Kelly was awarded the Disruptive Innovator Award by the International Association of Peer Supporters, an award given to a young person making positive change in mental health through positive disruption.

She is a certified yoga teacher and holds a certificate in Applied Positive Psychology from The Flourishing Center. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.

Learn More About Kelly Davis

https://mhanational.org/kelly-davis



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Vikram Patel, PhD, MB, BS

Vikram Patel, PhD, MB, BS

The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School

Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He co-leads the Department’s Mental Health for All lab and co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His work has focused on the burden of mental health problems across the life course, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. 

He is a co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health, the Centre for Global Mental Health (at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), the Mental Health Innovations Network, and Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the WHO Public Health Champion of India prize. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on the Committee which drafted India’s first National Mental Health Policy and the WHO High Level Independent Commission for NCDs. He has been awarded the Chalmers Medal (the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), the Sarnat Prize (the National Academy of Medicine, USA), the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation, USA), an Honorary OBE (the UK Government), the Posey Leadership Award (Austin College, USA) and the John Dirk Canada Gairdner Award in Global Health (the Canada Gairdner Foundation). He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.

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Erin Michaela Brandt, MS

Erin Michaela Brandt, MS

Coach with Appreciating Men

Erin Michaela Brandt, pre-Covid, traveled full time working with men’s groups, helping men to heal their relationships with women. She’s been a private men’s coach for 13 years. Now, she leads a blend of attachment work and nervous system co-regulation, and teaches men & women to both have compassion for one another and appreciate their differences.

Erin was an Injury Evaluation and Treatment Therapist for 22 years, a Personal Trainer and Movement Analyst for 9, and a Partner Dance Instructor for 25. She has a Master’s in Human Movement Science. Erin condensed about 9 years of learning about attachment theory and nervous system regulation into 3, assisted Diane Poole Heller, and now leads her own trainings in person and online at www.CalmAndEngaged.com

Learn More About Ms. Brandt:

http://www.erintherapy.com/Welcome.html

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Sarah Fader

Sarah Fader

Founder of Stigma Fighters

Sarah Fader is the Founder of Stigma Fighters, a non-profit organization that encourages individuals with mental illness to share their personal stories. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Quartz, ADAA, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, HuffPost Live, The Good Men Project, The Mighty, Ravishly, YourTango, and Good Day New York.

Sarah is a native New Yorker who enjoys naps, talking to strangers, and caring for her two small humans and two average-sized cats. Like six million other Americans, Sarah lives with Bipolar Disorder type II, OCD ADHD, and PTSD. 

Sarah has accurately described herself as a mental health advocate, writer (with published books available on Amazon), and more.

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MJ Gottlieb

MJ Gottlieb

Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Executive Officer at Loosid App
Author of How to Ruin a Business Without Really Trying

MJ Gottlieb is a lifelong entrepreneur, having owned and operated five businesses and one not-for-profit foundation over the last 29 years.

He is co-founder of LOOSID APP, an app created for those who choose to live a sober lifestyle.

Loosid was born out of the need to unite the sober community and bring together those people in recovery and battling addiction, as well as those who choose to live a sober lifestyle for other reasons (a combined total of over 300 million people from all walks of life).

Loosid’s vision is to create a comprehensive digital platform for the sober community that celebrates the sober lifestyle while at the same time providing support for those members of the community in recovery or struggling with addiction.

MJ Gottlieb is also the author of How to Ruin a Business Without Really Trying, a business book containing fifty-five painstaking, yet hysterical tales from MJ’s journey as an entrepreneur.

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