Meet Our Student Voice of Mental Health Award Winners!

JED’s Student Voice of Mental Health Award is an annual award honoring an undergraduate college student who is doing outstanding work to raise awareness for mental health issues, reduce prejudice around mental illness, and encourage help-seeking among their peers.

Past winners:

2022

Crystal Widado, Glendora High School

Read her story here.

Joseph Sexton, Vanderbilt University

Read his full story here.

2021

Georgia Messinger, Harvard University

Read her story here.

2020

Collin Spencer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Read his story here.

2019

Enna Selmanovic, University of Cincinnati

Read her story here.

2018

Samuel Orley and Max Rothman, University of Michigan

Read their story here.

2017

Matthew Argame, California State University, Long Beach

Read his story here.

2016

Maggie Skoch Musso, University of Notre Dame

Read her story here.

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 Alive Campaign, Five students from Baylor University bicycle across the country for suicide prevention

 

This award was initially established in 2008 by Carol Ullman in honor of her son, Jerry Greenspan.