Katherine Ponte JD, MBA, CPRP

Katherine Ponte, BA, JD, MBA, CPRP, is a mental-health recovery advocate, author, non-profit founder, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. She is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and faculty member of 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. Ponte is the author of ForLikeMinds: Mental Illness Recovery Insights and Your Mental Health Recovery Workbook: A Workbook to Share Hope (Trigger Publishing) and co-author of Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness: Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health Recovery (New Harbinger Publications, forthcoming). She has lived with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis, including extended periods of suicidal depression for over 20 years and has been happily living in recovery since 2018.