Celia Brown is board president of MindFreedom International. Widely respected throughout the psychiatric survivor activist movement for her courage and warmth, Celia is also chair of MindFreedom's Global Campaign Committee, and leads MindFreedom's delegation inside the United Nations. Celia Brown is also on the board of National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy. Celia is an African American psychiatric survivor who works as a mental health advocate in New York City.


Ted Chabasinski experienced involuntary electroshock in an experiment at the age of six, and spent the rest of his youth in a state psychiatric facility. Ted has helped lead the psychiatric survivors liberation movement for more than 30 years. He is now an attorney in Berkeley, California.

Judi Chamberlin is a psychiatric survivor and has been an activist since 1971 in the survivor/consumer/ex-patient movement. Judi is the author of the influential On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, originally published in 1978, and later republished in Britain, Italy, and Japan. She is a co- founder of the National Empowerment Center, in Lawrence, MA, a federally funded technical assistance center which serves the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement, where she is the Director of Education and Training. Judi is also a board member of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), the Center for Public Representation, and Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI).

Krista Erickson is a leader in the cross-disability community. Krista is a psychiatric survivor who works in a center for independent living for people with disabilities in Illinois. Krista is 100 percent blind, and participated in the MindFreedom hunger strike.

Janet Foner is a psychiatric survivor with a master's degree, M.P.S.SC., in community
psychology. She co-founded and co-coordinated Support Coalition, 1990 to 2000. From 1978 on Janet helped develop the movement of psychiatric survivors within the International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, co-wrote the policy booklet, "What's Wrong with the Mental Health System and What Can Be Done About It", and in 1992 became the International Liberation Reference Person for Mental Health System Survivors for that organization; currently International Liberation Reference Person for Mental Health Liberation.

Al Galves, PhD is a dissident psychologist and mental health consumer who lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico and is also on the board of International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Al is a licensed psychologist in Colorado and a licensed school psychologist in New Mexico.