Katherine Ponte

Katherine Ponte is a mental health advocate, author, nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. She is a certified psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner, and faculty member in the department of psychiatry's Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University. She built the ForLikeMinds platform of recovery-focused mental health initiatives and its associated community of over 100,000 that has reached millions. She is on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-NYC. Katherine is author of ForLikeMinds. She has lived with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis, including extended periods of suicidal depression for over twenty years, and has been happily living in recovery since 2018. She is based in NYC and the Catskills.