Jaclyn Schess

My name is Jaclyn Schess (she/her) though most people call me Jackee. I am a PhD Candidate in Health Policy in the Health Economics Track at UC Berkeley.  My research interests are in the social and political determinants of mental ill-health health and addiction. At Berkeley I am a NIH T32 Trainee in Research on Alcohol Problems and am conducting research on the impact of labor force policies on mental health and substance use outcomes.  I was previously a trainee on a NIH T32s in Demography and Computational Social Science. 

I am the Founder and CEO of Generation Mental Health, a youth-led nonprofit empowering young people to take action for mental health systems change. You can frequently find me speaking or writing about my lived experience and advocating for the centering of impacted people in research, programs and policy.