Mindy Greiling served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for 20 years, where she initiated the first state bipartisan mental health caucus after her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She served on state and national NAMI boards and is the immediate past president of NAMI Ramsey County. She co-chairs NAMI Ramsey County’s advocacy for Clubhouse International and is leading advocacy for more affordable housing that fits people with serious mental illnesses. Greiling’s memoir, Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son, was published in 2020, and she co-hosts the podcast Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches.

Linda has been an advocate for reform in public policy, law, insurance and treatment protocols for people living with serious neurobiological brain disorders for more than 12 years. She began her career as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for Xerox Corporation, moved on to working for the U.S. State Department in Boston and then as U.S. Sen. Alan J. Dixon’s Government Affairs/Legislative Analyst Assistant in Chicago and Washington, D.C. As the creator and manager of the Public Relations and Employee Communications Department for Quill Corporation, Linda authored and edited seven informational books and manuals on business productivity, with more than 100 articles and business tips published nationally in newspapers, magazines, newsletters and catalogs. She has been a featured speaker at several national meetings, including the Capitol Hill briefing “People With Schizophrenia Face Severe Treatment Barriers: Regulatory, Policy Solutions Urgently Needed To Address Inequity,” in May 2023; the Public Policy Panel at the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance 2020 symposium; The Hill 2021 national event “The New Role of Telehealth;” and Center Forward’s 2022 Capitol Hill Healthcare Summit. Linda’s podcasts, commentaries and editorials addressing the lack of a continuum of care and criminalization of those with serious brain disorders, one of the greatest injustices of our time, have been published nationally and locally.

Linda earned an M.A. in Public Policy from Duke University and a B.A. in Anthropology from Lawrence University. She is Vice Chair of S&PAA and a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the California Coalition for CARE/Grave Disability Workgroup and the National Shattering Silence Coalition (NSSC). She serves on Lawrence University’s President’s Advisory Council. In 2020, she established the Lawrence Fund for Serious Mental Illness Advocacy Internships to give students the opportunity to learn about serious brain diseases, their criminalization and how to build solutions for better access to medical treatment with supportive care and housing.

Mike spent nearly 37 years at Johnson & Johnson in executive management positions with a strong focus on patient advocacy leadership responsibilities across brain health and neuroscience. He held leadership roles in sales, sales management, marketing, payer, policy and advocacy (advocacy group types: patient, professional and trade organizations), and built and led several innovative and successful internal and external coalitions. He also held commercial, Medicaid and state mental healthcare system responsibilities across New York and New England. Mike obtained his BBA in Marketing from East Tennessee State University.

Bethany Yeiser is president of the CURESZ Foundation, which she co-founded with Henry Nasrallah, M.D., in 2016. CURESZ stands for Comprehensive Understanding via Research and Education into SchiZophrenia. Bethany was a scholarship winner, researcher and violinist before she became severely mentally ill and homeless during her senior year of college in 2003. Maintaining a high level of recovery for 15 years, she is a motivational speaker and the author of Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery (2014). Bethany also publishes a blog called “Recovery Road” on PsychologyToday.com. Her second book, Awakenings: Stories of Recovery and Emergence from Schizophrenia, was released in February and was co-authored by Dr. Nasrallah.

Gordon joined Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance as CEO in November 2020. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Operations since September 2018.

Before joining the organization, Gordon held executive management positions with leading nonprofits including the Alzheimer’s Association, the ALS Association, and Autism Society of America coordinating and executing strategies to accelerate organizational growth.

Gordon earned a B.S. in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College and a Master of Education degree from the University of Vermont.