Speaker Bios

the development of the Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; has served on the board of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and has played a key role in the development of several peer-run crisis alternatives.

Hilary Melton

Hilary Melton is the founder and current Executive Director of Pathways Vermont which has been providing housing and innovative mental health services in communities across the state of Vermont since 2009. Hilary has worked in shelters, street outreach, and administered supported housing programs in New York City and Vermont.

Calvin Moen

Calvin Moen is a psychiatric survivor, advocate and educator on topics including alternatives to policing and incarceration, intersections of queer and Mad struggles, trauma-informed emergency services and harm reduction approach to psychiatric drugs. He is a former coordinator for the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community and a co-founder and organizer of the Brattleboro-based Hive Mutual Support Network. Calvin is a published author and is co-editor of Much Madness: A Survivor’s Guide to Extreme States and Self Advocacy for Young Adults.

Zenni Muhammad

Zen Q “Zenni” Muhammad (ze/they/he) is a QTPOC peer support advocate whose passion is working on a team developing a youth mental health support program, as an alternative to youth psychiatric hospitalization. Zenni who also identifies as a psychiatric survivor, aims to change the harm caused by our current mental