In this episode, Prameela Boorada, Chief Growth Officer at MannMukti, a non-profit organization dedicated to removing the stigma surrounding South Asian mental health, joins The Okay Days to talk about race and youth mental health.
Prameela is a social-impact storyteller with an artsy, entrepreneurial spirit. Growing up in India, she was raised on a wonderful selection of fables, mythology, biographies and experiences. Shortly after moving to the United States, she attended UC Davis and graduated with a degree in Quantitative Psychology.
Through college, she suffered through several mental health issues and struggled to find culturally-competent resources. In an attempt to find healing and community, she got involved with on-campus mental health advocacy. That passion stayed well beyond college, and she went on to build an anxiety care app, conduct several research projects on youth wellbeing, publish a wellbeing magazine featuring creatives of color, got involved in grass-roots mental health advocacy and launched a national South Asian Youth Fellowship.
Prameela is also a part of Mental Health America's 2021-2022 Youth Mental Health Leaders Council. And when she's not out building programs or products, you can find her painting, writing poetry, baking or learning how to gracefully fall on roller skates.
We talk about the next generation of mental health advocates (spoiler alert: they are already here!), and how to start the conversation about race and mental health.
Follow along at @mannmukti.
