Dear Family Member, Friend and Supporter,
We’re pleased to share that our CEO, Gigi Renee Crowder, had the opportunity to speak about the power of empathy online, social media and mental health at San Ramon’s TEDx Talk. Watch NAMI CC CEO Gigi Crowder speak at TEDx Talk’s The Quest for Balance: Human Connection in a Digital World | TEDxCamino Ramon St. Explore the impact of social media on mental health and strategies for using these platforms in a way that enhances well-being and connection.
Gigi Crowder is the CEO of the Contra Costa chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the country’s largest advocacy organization for people with mental illness and their families. Before NAMI CC, Crowder worked for 10 years as Alameda County’s Behavioral Health Care Services ethnic services manager, where she pushed to provide programs for Black, Asian, LGBTQ and LatinX people and taught implicit bias training to police. A woman “of great faith,” she also chairs a statewide initiative to integrate faith and spirituality into mental health treatment. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
