Ed Herzog
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Ed Herzog is one of the co-founders of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and currently the board treasurer. He lives in Berkeley and has been a documentary filmmaker for 30 years, working primarily in the labor movement. He is on the NAMI East Bay Board of Directors and facilitates a monthly support group for family members whose loved ones hear voices and special messages and experience alternative realities. The group also explores alternatives to the medical model of mental health treatment.
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Nev Jones
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Nev is a long-time HVN organizer, former director of Chicago Hearing Voices and Director of Research at Felton Institute in San Francisco. She has been involved in multiple areas of service user advocacy including discrimination in higher education and anti-police violence work. Nev's current research focuses on differences in the experience of hearing voices across cultures, early intervention in psychosis services and peer involvement in research. She recently completed a national survey of HVN facilitators.
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Manton Hurd
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Manton is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working in the public mental health system. He has prior experience working with underserved populations in mental health as an advocate, counselor and nurse. Manton is particularly interested in applying innovative theoretical approaches to improve outcomes for individuals with severe and persistent emotional and mental distress.
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Sederia Lewis
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With a strong passion for her community, Ms. Lewis is an expert by experience. She has worked previously as a Community Health Specialist, and is active as a volunteer with a variety of community agencies. Ms. Lewis is also a student at Merritt College, pursuing a degree in alcohol and drug studies. In addition to BAHV Voices, Visions and Beliefs groups, Ms. Lewis facilitates Wellness Recovery Action Plan, smoking cessation, and harm reduction tobacco groups.
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Al Weary
Al Weary is a father, brother and advocate. Al’s earliest moment of helping others was in the form of his mom making him take bags of food to a neighbor’s home. From that moment Al knew he wanted to help others and over years he has made it his mission, his goal and his passion.
Ed Chiera
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Ed Chiera is a family member, community organizer and advocate for the Hearing Voices Movement. He lives in western Marin County. Now retired, Ed worked for over 20 years as a consultant to labor leaders nationally, creating joint labor‐management training programs to upskill union members to meet workforce changes, most notably in health care. Presently, as a volunteer board member, he is guiding BAHVN to gain state and federal recognition as a public benefit corporation, eligible to receive charitable donations and grants.
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Dina Tyler
Bret Fimiani
Tim Dreby
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Tim Dreby is an award-winning author and licensed psychotherapist who works on an urban outpatient psychiatric unit. Tim’s first publication was in 2015, entitled, Fighting for Freedom in America: Memoir of a “Schizophrenia” and Mainstream Cultural Delusions. It chronicles his mid career plight taking on a section 8 management company, police, and black market forces that intermingled to run things. The outcome has been a unique perspective on mental health informed by both sides of the broken tiled corridor.
Tim became a social worker in 1993 and worked his way through. Over the past ten years, he developed an extensive training for providers to help them work with people who experience “psychosis” across diagnostic divides. Visit Tim on his author website to read essays etc. . . www.timdreby.com |
Corinne Collins
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Steering Committee for South Bay Project Resource since 2016. BAHVN Board Member since 2016. Has a family member who experiences psychosis. Interested in alternative approaches to the experience of hearing voices and altered reality states. Interested in providing information and support to families who have a member experiencing ongoing symptoms of psychosis.
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