KATE SPEER is On a MISSION TO ERRADICATE STIGMA AND ADDRESS THE SUICIDE EPIDEMIC HEAD ON.

She is a writer, speaker, mental health advocate, Public Health strategist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and seasoned marketing executive. After ten years in social media marketing and five years running and scaling the internationally renowned storytelling brand, The Dogist, she now works in Public Health to use social media for good instead of the bottom line. 

Her current work focuses on making public health information more accessible to youth and vulnerable populations. She is actively building the Harvard Creator Program, a revolutionary alliance between Public Health and creators that increases the amount of evidence-based public health information disseminated on social media. 

In addition to her work at Harvard, Kate also writes the Substack Bestseller — Healing Out Loud — which explores her lived experience with a decade-long psychiatric misdiagnosis and unpacks mental health, its culture, and serious mental illness recovery beyond the biomedical model. In her free time, she can be found adventuring in the woods of Vermont with her husband and psychiatric service dogs and finalizing her first memoir, Maura and Me, due out in late 2025.

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Kate gives dynamic keynotes about mental health, recovery, and the power of vulnerable storytelling and social media marketing in Public Health.