Hope Starts With Us: Insurance, Families & Parity

We hope this podcast encourages you, inspires you, helps you and brings you further into the collective to know: you are not alone.

Episodes will air every other Wednesday and will be available on most major directories and apps.

Richele Keas

Richele Keas is NAMI’s senior media manager. She has more than a decade of experience in health communications and public relations and also has personal experience navigating insurance and fragmented systems of care on behalf of a loved one. She’s been working at NAMI for 5 years, hoping to make a difference for other people going through similar situations.

Hannah Wesolowski

Hannah Wesolowski is NAMI’s chief advocacy officer. She works alongside the entire Government Relations, Policy & Advocacy team with advocates, partners and NAMI leaders to enact policy change to improve the lives of all people affected by mental health conditions. She believes in the power of advocates sharing their stories to advance research, increase mental health funding, improve access to care, expand social supports and decriminalize mental illness.

She came to NAMI in 2017 with more than a decade of experience in advocacy, joining the NAMI team after five years at the Public Affairs Council to help associations, corporations and nonprofit advocacy groups build government affairs efforts programs. She previously led political advocacy efforts at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Institute of Architects.

Hannah grew up in New Hampshire and has a B.A. from New York University, where she also earned an MPA from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.