Susan Rogers is Director of Special Projects of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP) and the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. As MHASP’s Director of Special Projects, she has primary responsibility for writing projects that further the MHASP mission. These include co-authorship of an amici curiae brief accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., a landmark disability rights case. She also provides support to MHASP legislative and policy initiatives.
She has done extensive public speaking at a wide variety of national, statewide, and local conferences and rallies on topics including the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses, public and press relations, community organizing, and recovery. She has appeared on television and on the radio, and has been interviewed in the print media to fight stigma and discrimination and promote the self-help and advocacy movement of people with psychiatric disabilities. She is the author of numerous articles on the consumer/survivor movement and the mental health system; and she has edited several publications. She also serves on the Steering Committee of OpenMindsOpenDoors, Pennsylvania’s anti-discrimination campaign.
Before joining MHASP in 1984, Susan was editor-in-chief of a newsletter on health and finance, with a national circulation of approximately 800,000. She is a consumer of mental health services and has been active in the consumer/survivor movement since 1984.
