Hello blog readers! You may have already read my blog posts from last year, but I will be continuing to update this blog with my work on my second Signature, which builds off of the work I completed last year. If this is your first time on the blog, my name is Katherine Wallace and I am a senior at Emma Willard School. My Signature last year was centered around developing a club model in association with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in order to increase awareness and decrease the stigma surrounding mental illness. This year, I'll be continuing this work by running NAMI@Emma, but I'll also be involved in expanding the club to other schools in the Capital Region. Hopefully we can get branches of the club started in three other schools, and I'll be centering my work on both engaging other student leaders in various schools, and equipping them with resources and leadership skills so that their clubs may achieve success.
I care so deeply about this issue because of my family’s history with mental illness, and the hardships I have seen lessened in our lives because of our support for each other. I want to ensure that no one living with a mental illness lacks this care because of the stigma.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. -Bill Clinton
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