No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 5: Dior Vargas

2/2/2018

No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 5: Dior Vargas

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This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Latina Feminist Mental Health Activist Dior Vargas. I’ve been following Dior’s journey for over three years now and it’s great to finally be able to talk with her. She’s shared her story as well as advocate for underrepresented communities at such places as the Active Minds National Conference, Facebook HQ, and even the White House. She is probably most well known for her People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project which you can view anytime here. Dior definitely had no restraints today and I appreciate her using her platform and influence to further the conversation on race, feminism, mental health, and how they all intersect. You can also follow Dior on Facebook and Twitter.

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ABOUT RUDY

My name is Rudy Caseres and I am an award-winning public speaker, live-streaming, social media influencer/manager, and storytelling event producer. I am the host of No Restraints with Rudy Caseres where I have live interactive candid discussions with the leading advocates in mental health, human rights, and suicide prevention (currently on hiatus). I also host a monthly panel discussion for The Mighty with the leading mental health advocates in the world. I previously hosted SPSM Chat - Suicide Prevention Social Media where I led lively discussions with various experts in the field of suicidology. I advocate for humane treatment in the mental healthcare system and effective suicide prevention. I have given over 100 presentations in which I have shared my story of living with bipolar, surviving a mental breakdown while serving in the US Army, and fighting against forced psychiatric treatment in front of grad students, doctors, psych ward patients, educators, and youth at junior highs, high schools, and juvenile detention facilities. I have spoken across the country from the California State Capitol at an event headlined by legendary actor Richard Dreyfus to the Shedding Light on Mental Health Conference in Greater Wheeling, West Virginia. My content has been featured in The Mighty, This is My Brave, HealthyPlace, The S Word, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Sweatpants & Coffee, Stigma Fighters, and Schizophrenic NYC. In 2017, I was awarded the NAMI California Outstanding Peer of the Year and I was named one of The Mighty's Mental Health Heroes of 2017. After living in Los Angeles, California most of my life I recently relocated to the Denver, Colorado area.

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