About the Keynotes

SERA DAVIDOW is a mother, an advocate, an activist and a filmmaker. She devotes much of her time to the Wildflower Alliance, formerly the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community (www.westernmassrlc.org), which includes Afiya (www.afiyahouse.org), the thirteenth peer respite in the United States. Sera has been a part of Wildflower Alliance since its envisioning process, and has served as Director since it became funded in 2007.

She is also an active part of Hearing Voices USA (www.hearingvoicesusa. org) and Occupy the Judge Rotenberg Center (www.occupyjrc.org), amongst a variety of other projects.

ROBERT WHITAKER is an American journalist and author who has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His first book, Mad in America, was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. He is the publisher of madinamerica.com.

Sponsors

TRAILBLAZERS

Disability Rights Vermont

Intentional Peer Support

Life Intervention Team

LMW Design

Pathways Vermont

Vermont Peer Workforce Development Initiative

Advocates

Vermont Psychiatric Survivors

Vermont Center for Independent Living

Wilda L. White Consulting

Allies

Howard Center

United Way of Northwest Vermont, Mental Health Initiative

Northern Vermont University, NVU Graduate Programs

PARTNERS

Vermont Association for Mental Health & Addiction Recovery (VAMHAR)

Supporters

Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont

Parker Advisors, LCC

Vermont Workers’ Center

Contributors

The Hood Plant

Monica White