Episode Notes

On DE-Stress 302, host Alena Duggan and The CAUSE Production Crew produced a Delaware-centric podcast all about mental health.

Esther has worked in healthcare advocacy, marketing, and fundraising for nearly 18 years. She worked with people with brain injury, disabilities, and mental health and substance use disorders. Esther has had her own struggles with depression and anxiety and found healing by way of one of MHA’s educational programs.

In 2024, Esther joined the Mental Health Association in Delaware as a Development Manager focusing on Growth & Education. She works to promote MHA's four annual community mental health education conferences and raise funds to enhance them each year.

Esther is a graduate of Wilmington University with a Master of Science in Management and earned her Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from Thomas Edison State University. Esther is also a proud graduate of the Academy for Women and Leadership with Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

Esther is also a mixed media teaching artist. She is certified to teach the Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Arts Education Model. In 2024 she completed the Trauma-Informed Teaching Practitioner of Art (TIPTA) certificate with the Bartol Foundation. She was part of the team of teaching artists facilitating Delaware's first CreatiVeterans program.

Esther celebrated 20 years of living in Delaware in 2024.

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