National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
Leah Harris is a survivor of psychiatry, a proud mama, and an artivist, who also lost both parents to forced psychiatric treatment. She has spoken and written widely to promote human rights, dignity, healing, and self-determination at conferences including NARPA, Alternatives, and the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), and has been a guest on Madness Radio. She was a participant and editor of MindFreedom Support Coaltion International Oral History Project. Her writing has appeared in publications including Off Our Backs: a Women's Newsjournal, Adbusters.org, CounterPunch, Street Spirit, TheIcarusProject.net, and New York City Voices, A Consumer Journal for Mental Health Advocacy. She is a founder of the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency, which uses public poetry as a means to promote social justice and inspire people to get active on the issues they care about. Her first book of poetry is entitled Poems of Mass Construction.