Alyssa Cypher

Activist, Speaker, and Writer
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Alyssa Cypher, MPA is an activist, speaker, writer, podcast host, and self-appointed “professional crazy person.” Her work focuses on radical mental health, Mad Pride, and the expertise and rights of people with lived experience of mental illness and madness.

Alyssa is the Founding Executive Director of Inside Our Minds, an organization that works to elevate the voices of people with lived experience of mental illness and madness 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. She was recently honored for her work as a Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 winner.

View her recent talk at TEDxPittsburghWomen

Speaker

Alyssa is a professional public speaker on madness, radical mental health, and mental illness. She is available for lectures, panels, workshops, and keynote speaker positions. In the past, she has presented at TEDxPittsburghWomen, AlphaLab, and Duquesne University.
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Writer

Alyssa writes on a variety of topics, including trauma, the personality disorders, discrimination, ableism/sanism, and general crazy person life.
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Consultant

Alyssa is available as a consultant to help make your workplace or event inclusive for people with lived experience of mental illness and madness. She is also available for workshops on madness and mental illness for service providers and mental health professionals.
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