Each year, The Jed Foundation (JED) honors one high school student and one college student doing outstanding work to create communities of care in their schools. Student Voice of Mental Health Award recipients are advocates who are raising mental health awareness by leading initiatives, encouraging their peers to reach out for help, and building support systems for youth mental health and suicide prevention.
Previous winners:
2024
Rick Yang, Scarsdale High School
Areli Rosales, University of Texas at San Antonio
2023
Audrey Wang, Mission San Jose High School
José Caballero, Columbia University
2022
Crystal Widado, Glendora High School
Joseph Sexton, Vanderbilt University
2021
Georgia Messinger, Harvard University
2020
Collin Spencer, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019
Enna Selmanovic, University of Cincinnati
2018
Samuel Orley and Max Rothman, University of Michigan
2017
Matthew Argame, California State University, Long Beach
2016
Maggie Skoch Musso, University of Notre Dame
2015
Sonia Doshi, University of Michigan
2014
Margaret Kramer, University of South Carolina
2013
Michael Kessler, The George Washington University
2012
Lauren Ashley Tipton, Washington and Lee University
2011
Kristen Stefureac, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010
Jenny Liu, University of California Los Angeles
2009
Adam Taylor, Western Michigan University
2008
The Student Voice of Mental Health Awards were established in 2008 by Carol Ullman in honor of her son, Jerry Greenspan.
That year, The Alive Campaign, consisting of five students from Baylor University who bicycled across the country for suicide prevention, received the award.