About us
Tina Minkowitz represented the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in the drafting and negotiation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons witih Disabilities. She served on the steering committee of the International Disability Caucus and was a member of the 40-person drafting group that created the official text of the treaty for negotiation. She is credited with much of the paradigm-shifting character of the CRPD in the areas of legal capacity, liberty and respect for integrity of the person. Ms. Minkowitz is a lawyer admitted in the state of New York. She is a survivor of psychiatry and believes in the development of authentic user/survivor perspectives in human rights.
Adinah Caro-Greene
[Bio and photo forthcoming]
Erick Fabris
[Bio and photo forthcoming]
Sonjinetta Cooper-Searight
[Bio and photo forthcoming]
On Leave:
Lauren Tenney, ABD, MPhil, MA, MPA is a survivor of psychiatry. First institutionalized at 15 years old, she has worked over the last two decades to end human rights violations committed by organized psychiatry. Of particular concern to her are the institutional and structural racist and classist practices legalized, funded, regulated, implemented, and evaluated by the state in the field of psychiatry (i.e. involuntary outpatient torture). She works to stop the use of forced and uninformed electroshock on people of all ages and ban the use of electroshock on minors, and to stop forced drugging, restraint, seclusion, aversives, psychiatric institutionalization, detainment and confinement. Tenney is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. She is the coordinator of The Opal Project, involved with WE THE PEOPLE, and a novelist living in Albany, NY with Lady, her service dog-in-training. For more information: www.TheOpalProject.org; www.NoIOC.org; www.StopForceNow.org; www.ETrash.tv (516) 319-4295
