Breaking the Mental Health Stigma with Ingram Stovall, LMSW

Mental health is something still stigmatized today in 2020, and the way we can address this is by creating dialogue, educating ourselves, and spreading awareness. Ingram Stovall joins us this week to share her journey into the world of mental health and what inspired her to join the social work field. She passionately reflects on her experiences in New Orleans as the first student from Southern University to intern at NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, learning first-hand about the gentrification and disenfranchisement post-hurricane Katrina, and how she went from wanting to assimilate into White culture to fully embracing her Blackness. Ingram describes some of the challenges the Black community faces today, both in the mental health world and the regular world, and how we must create loving, safe spaces with which to share dialogue and truly listen to one another.

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