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Annual Fundraiser Keynote Speaker:
Glenda Wrenn Gordon, MD, MSHP, DFAPA
A board-certified psychiatrist, mental health equity leader, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Wrenn Gordon serves as Chief of Clinical Strategy at Mindoula Health, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine, chairs the APA Council on Quality, and has spent over two decades training clinicians, shaping health policy, and advancing integrated care for underserved communities.
But the most important thing to know about Dr. Wrenn Gordon may be this: expertise does not make you immune.
Despite her encyclopedic knowledge of mental illness, systems of care, and evidence-based treatment, she has navigated the profound humbling experience of watching her own family struggle — and discovering that knowledge alone is not enough. Her son's journey through bipolar disorder and substance use recovery taught her what no textbook could: that even the most informed among us can feel lost, inadequate, and afraid. That stigma does not stop at the clinician's front door. And that the path forward requires more than clinical skill — it requires vulnerability, community, and the kind of resilience that is actively built, not simply inherited.
In this fireside chat, Dr. Wrenn Gordon opens an honest conversation about the gap between what we know and what we can actually do when it hits close to home — and why closing that gap, for clinicians and caregivers alike, depends on our willingness to be human first.
Dragonfly Mental Health
There is a growing mental illness epidemic in higher education where graduate students have 8 times higher rates of severe depression and anxiety, far too often resulting in suicide.
Our team of academic volunteers is combatting this epidemic by delivering evidence-based workshops, programs, and consulting to academic communities around the world. This, in combination with rigorous research and community building efforts, will change the world as we know it by supporting and sustaining the incredible minds and talent ready to make the world a better place.
By tending the mental health of our academics, professionals, and visionaries, their wellbeing will permeate every aspect of our world: science, medicine, law, politics, art, history, film, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, business, government and education.
Our MissionCultivating Excellent Mental Health in Academics Worldwide
Read about our global efforts in Nature!
“Not only are there evidence-based tactics that work, but they are being deployed, and everyone can take advantage of them,” says Ingram, the founder and chief executive of Dragonfly Mental Health, a global non-profit advocacy group based in Bradenton, Florida.
Dragonfly Mental Health develops, deploys, and evaluates evidence-based strategies to produce sustainable mental health culture in higher education.Wendy Ingram PhD, Founder and CEO
Watch real stories of successful and prominent faculty who have struggled with their mental health.
Together we are breaking the stigma and busting the myth that mental health struggles preclude one from being successful.
"Recognize that it's not uncommon and people can deal with it. There are solutions."