Experience a year of grassroots practice and praxis development with the Black, Philadelphia-based mental health collective Deep Space Mind 215.
Rashni Stanford is a co-founder of Deep Space Mind 215 mental health co-operative, and formerly co-founder of Youth Healers Stand Up!, a youth-led project centering the leadership of young people experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. Ras is a social worker focused on critical liberation strategy and enacting afro-futurism everyday. In another life Ras is a writer of institutional sci-fi and horror fiction and founding member of Metropolarity, a Philly-grown sci-fi collective.
Carmel Brown is a social scientist, researcher, and co-founder of Deep Space Mind 215.