Detour -
My Bipolar Trip in 4D




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Since the publication of DETOUR, Lizzie has worked as a consultant creating content and doing casting for media organizations. For MTV, she co-produced a one hour documentary, True Life: I'm Bipolar. She has also worked with Student Life administrators on university campuses to create best practices for nurturing the mental health of students.

This year she was hired by The National Mental Health Awareness Campaign to create a mental health speaker's bureau, and develop media relations. To visit the speaker's bureau website, and see videos of the speakers, go to www.nostigma.org.

Lizzie is a founding member of The Leadership 21 Committee of The Bazelon Law Center in Washington, DC, whose goal is to discover the future of civil rights for people with mental illness and disability. The committee is at work on a guide for college mental health. For more info please go to www.bazelon.org

Lizzie and DETOUR have been featured on CNN, The Connie Chung Show, The Judith Regan Show, NPR, Time Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Post, Nylon Magazine, Rhode Island Magazine, and many other radio, television, web and print outlets.


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