Alyssa Cypher
Alyssa Cypher, MPA is a mental illness activist, public speaker, and self-appointed “professional crazy person.” Her life goal is to work towards combining the (often separate) worlds of professional mental health and lived experience, in order to change the way people living with mental illness are perceived and treated in society. She lives with borderline personality disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
Alyssa is the Founding Executive Director of Inside Our Minds, an organization that builds collective community narratives on mental illness in Pittsburgh. She has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Public Administration in Policy Research and Analysis from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.