DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES April 23, 2015 BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PRESENTS THE 19th ANNUAL The 19th Annual Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards Honorees Honoring Ryan Anderson Mary Lambert Ryan Anderson Leadership Award Howie Mandel April 23, 2015 Mary Lambert The Beverly Hilton Darrell Steinberg Mental Health Ambassador Jordana Steinberg Howie Mandel Wendy Liebman Beatrice Stern Media Award Emcee and salutes Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Darrell Steinberg Dear Abby (Jeanne Phillips) for its invaluable work. Leadership Award Presenter Jordana Steinberg Steve Lopez Leadership Award Presenter DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES The idea that mental illness is shameful grew out of fear and ignorance about its causes, effects and treatments. Today, we know more about brain chemistry and its disturbances than ever before, yet stigma around mental illness persists. In 1997, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services took a lead role in sparking positive conversations about mental illness by honoring Tipper Gore at its first Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards. Since she candidly shared her history of depression, we have honored researchers, BEATRICE STERN MEDIA AWARD physicians, writers, actors, musicians, sports figures and others who have kept the In 2007, Beatrice Stern established the Beatrice Stern Media Award to recognize creative conversation going. Thanks to their advocacy, we have made significant progress in individuals who use the media to help erase the stigma of mental illness. A dear friend of Didi erasing the stigma of mental illness, which will affect half of us sometime in our lives. Hirsch, Bea believed that the constructive power of media can change hearts and minds as well as influence policy. The Media Award honors people in film, television, print, Internet or social media who have used their power to enlighten us about mental illness and inspire hope. Shawn Amos Lisa Petrazzolo Event Co-Chair Event Co-Chair Shawn Amos is a tastemaker, content creator, author, producer and Lisa Petrazzolo is a public relations, branding and marketing singer-songwriter who supported Didi Hirsch for many years before consultant for lifestyle, fashion and technology companies who joining its Board of Directors in 2012. Amos is the founder of joined Didi Hirsch’s Board in 2014. A family member’s struggle with Freshwire, a digital content studio that helps companies manage mental illness inspired her passion for mental health advocacy. and sustain their brands. A highly sought-after speaker, Amos Petrazzolo started her career in Washington, D.C. where she presented a talk on content and corporate culture at TEDxEast in interned for Senator John McCain and public relations powerhouse 2013 and has been a frequent contributor to Bloomberg West TV. FleishmanHillard. She later joined King World Productions in New He was included in Forbes magazine’s 2012 list of “Up and Comers.” York as a senior publicist and then went on to work at Lisa Lori Amos has produced broadcast, DVD and audio titles for legacy Communications and Violet Communications, which she co- artists ranging from Herb Alpert to the Bangles. In 2005, Shout! founded. She also served as marketing director at the Factory released his album, Thank You Shirl-ee May (A Love Story), Entertainment Industry Foundation’s highly successful a tribute to his mother, a night club singer who suffered from “Stand Up to Cancer” campaign. mental illness and died by suicide in 2003. Since 2013, he has performed as blues singer The Reverend Shawn Amos. Dear Abby (Jeanne Phillips) Wendy Liebman Award Presenter Emcee With a worldwide readership of more than 110 million, Dear Abby is the most widely syndicated columnist in the world. Well-known for Wendy Liebman is a stand-up comedian who has performed on the her sound, compassionate advice delivered with the straightforward late night shows of Carson, Letterman, Leno, Fallon, Kimmel and style of a good friend, Dear Abby, also known as Jeanne Phillips, Ferguson and in countless clubs, colleges, private shows and received an Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award in 2001. corporate gigs throughout the U.S. and Canada. She was doing research at Massachusetts Mental Health Center before applying to graduate school in clinical psychology when she took a class called “How to be a Stand-up Comedian” and discovered she would rather “make a hundred people laugh than one person cry.” She has done specials for HBO and Comedy Central, and her Showtime special, “Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV,” is available on Amazon. Wendy Steve Lopez was a Semi-Finalist on “America’s Got Talent,” Season 9, where she Award Presenter met comedian Rachel Butera, with whom she now has a new podcast on iTunes, “Wendy & Rachel Save the World.” Steve Lopez is an author and award-winning columnist with the Los Angeles Times whose nonfiction best-seller,The Soloist, was the subject of a DreamWorks movie by the same name. His columns addressing the plight of homeless people with mental illness earned him an Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award in 2006. Ryan Anderson Mary Lambert Leadership Award Mental Health Ambassador New Orleans Pelicans forward Ryan Anderson knows the pain of Mary Lambert is a Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and losing a loved one to suicide. After the death of his girlfriend, Gia spoken word artist who has used her music and words to advocate Allemand, in 2013, Ryan bravely used his platform in the NBA to go for same sex justice and erasing the stigma of mental illness. She public with the message that suicide is preventable and that there joined Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on their multi-million selling gay is always an outlet for those seeking help. Ryan frequently interacts marriage anthem, “Same Love,” won Seattle’s Poetry Slam in 2011 with others on social media about how to recognize the warning and performed alongside Madonna, Macklemore and Queen Latifah signs and joined an 18-mile “Out of the Darkness” suicide at the 2014 Grammy Awards. Released in late 2014, her debut awareness walk in Philadelphia. He filmed a short video for a album, Heart On My Sleeve, addresses her struggle with mental suicide prevention group called To Write Love on Her Arms, spoke illness without shame. It features the #1 Billboard dance single, at a women’s shelter in Sacramento, and told his story to Sports “Secrets,” a song which candidly features lyrics about her bipolar Illustrated. Ryan also helped start the Gia Allemand Foundation to diagnosis. Lambert also has independently released a book of help young women with body image issues and low self-esteem poetry, 500 Tips for Fat Girls, which includes poems about rape, overcome bullying and other challenges. incest, bipolar disorder, body image issues and homosexuality. Howie Mandel Darrell Steinberg Beatrice Stern Media Award Leadership Award Howie Mandel, judge of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, has had Former California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg a versatile career that encompasses virtually all aspects of the served in the California legislature for 14 years and helped usher in entertainment spectrum, including television, film and stage. some of the cornerstone mental health laws in the state. He wrote From 2005 to 2010, he hosted the hit game show Deal or No Deal. and championed the California Mental Health Services Act, passed Then, in 2009, he added the title “author” to his resume when he as Proposition 63 in 2004, which has raised $13.2 billion for mental released his funny, no-holds-barred autobiography, Here’s the Deal: health services and has helped countless Californians who suffer Don’t Touch Me. His memoir revealed his ongoing struggle with from severe and persistent mental illnesses get access to mental obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity health care. His legislation is moving California from a “fail first disorder and how these illnesses shaped his life and career. The system” to a “help first system” by providing funding for treatment, book made the New York Times’ Best Seller list in its first week and prevention and early intervention. While advocating publicly for remained on the list for several consecutive weeks. Howie has been mental health care funding, Darrell kept his family’s experience with bravely sharing his story and using his talent, humor, fame and mental illness private – out of respect for his young daughter. After candor to change the way people perceive mental illness. He has he termed out of the legislature in 2014, Darrell joined the been a spokesman for Bell Canada’s “Let’s Talk” campaign and has Greenberg Traurig law firm in Sacramento where he chairs its done public service announcements encouraging people to take California Government Law and Policy unit. He also established care of their mental health in the same way they take care of their the Steinberg Institute for Advancing Mental Health Policy to physical and dental health. enhance leadership and advocacy for what has become his signature policy area. Past Honorees Jordana Steinberg Leadership Award DEAR ABBY Jeff Greenberg Christopher Monger Jordana Steinberg, 21, the daughter of Former California Senate Michael Angelakos Mariette Hartley Dana Priest President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, is a college student at Maurice Benard Mary Hayashi Chris Rose Sierra Junior College in Rocklin, California. In August 2014, she Lois and Sam Bloom John Head Ronda Rousey went public with the story of her childhood and her struggles with Terry Bradshaw Jennifer Holliday Ambassador Nancy Hirsch Rubin a serious mood disorder. She is a frequent speaker to youth and Bebe Moore Campbell Anne Hull Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD adult audiences, and an advocate for erasing the stigma of mental Bridget Cantrell, PhD Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD David Satcher, MD illness. She aspires to work and lead in the mental health field.