About me
Shannon Pagdon, MSW, is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Her work brings together early psychosis services, peer support, lived experience co-production, stigma, and the phenomenology of psychosis. Grounded in lived experience and a background in peer support, she is co-creator of Psychosis Outside the Box and is committed to centering survivor and lived experience perspectives in the movement toward more compassionate, community-rooted, and non-coercive mental health care.