Meet the faces of our 2022 Mental Health Month Collection! These amazing advocates are members of Mental Health America’s Young Mental Health Leaders Council and are transforming mental health in their communities, proving that even one person can make a difference in the world of mental health for everyone. Leading by example, they’re talking openly about their mental health and making it easier for other people to do the same. Simply put – they’re what IDONTMIND is all about. Here’s just a quick look into who they are and the incredible work that they’re doing.

Jalyn Radziminski (they/she) is a Black and Japanese activist, whose work is dedicated to advocating for voter rights, racial equity, and disability justice for BIPOC communities. At the national level, Jalyn works at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, which historically helped establish and implement the ADA and Olmstead to end the segregation and institutionalization of people with disabilities. Jalyn was also one of AAPD’s first Fannie Lou Hamer Organizers that advocated increasing Black, Disabled voter turnout nationwide in the 2020 election. Jalyn now sits on AAPD's Rev Up Advisory board to bring political power to the disability community at large. At the local level, Radziminski is the Founder of Count US IN, the first Indiana-based nonpartisan nonprofit meant to increase and diversify civic engagement and voter turnout. Jalyn is also an elected Commissioner for Indiana Disability Rights’ Protection and Advocacy Services. In their spare time, Jalyn enjoys watching anime, hanging out with her puppy, Sylvee, and traveling with friends and family.

Jalyn works to uplift peer voices, testimonies, programs, and agendas through media, grassroots campaigns, politics, policy, and by connecting legal advocacy support. They believe that the most effective advocacy comes from people with lived experiences to make the change my peers and I need to see. Not just in campaigns, but for systematic change. Jalyn believes that we are moving towards a brighter future filled with peer-led, accessible, cultured, community-based mental health services and spaces.

Jaden Stewart (he/him) is a freshman at Kenyon College looking to make a positive change in the world. Currently, he's at the Division III level playing football and is in the process of working his way up the depth chart. Even with all of his accomplishments throughout high school, being a star athlete and valedictorian, he wants to make a bigger impact on the people he encounters day by day.

Jaden is using his social media platforms to inspire others to strive for greatness each and every day. He’s also contributing to the mental health world by having open and honest conversations with his peers. With these two pillars, Jaden is creating a change in the mental health world. 

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