No More White Lies: Black Minds Matter

In this episode we are joined with someone's auntie Tanisha Malcom to have an in-depth conversation on Mental Health & the disparities from the personal perspective of lived experience. 

Welcome Tanisha Malcom to the Highly Melanated Family 

Managing a mental health diagnosis for almost 20 years, our guest, Tanisha Malcom, is a staunch mental health advocate, not only for herself, but for the mental health community at large. Tanisha was just featured this week in a CBS News segment sharing her mental health journey and how attending support groups at NAMI NYC in 2019 saved her life. 

Since 2020, she has been a volunteer at NAMI NYC facilitating several support groups, one specifically she holds near and dear called Black Minds Matter, which she helped create.  "Being Black and living with a diagnosis can be very lonely, so to have this supportive space for our community is vital."

Tanisha is currently employed at a mental health nonprofit organization as a Peer Specialist, providing collaborative support and case management to people transitioning from an inpatient psychiatric setting back into the community. 

She sits on the Consumer Advisory Board of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bureau of Mental Health

"I am being the person for others that I needed throughout my life. I'm still here, and for that, I am grateful."

It's "Queens All Day" for Tanisha as this is the borough she was born and raised in. 

Tanisha's an old-school Rap/Hip-Hop nerd, obsessed with beaches, documentaries, and the University of South Carolina's Women's Basketball team.

As of late, she's been crafting a solo show highlighting the humor in life pre and post diagnosis.

— QUOTE OF THE DAY —

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde

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